num_pages: 64
description: Osprey's study of British troops prior to and during the Anglo-Zulu War (1879). On 4 March 1878 at King William's Town British Kaffraria Gen. Sir Arthur Cunnynghame handed over supreme command of the British forces in southern Africa to his successor Lt. Gen. Sir Frederic Thesiger. The High Commissioner Sir Henry Bartle Frere was convinced that one solution to the complex problems which beset the region was to overthrow the last powerful independent black kingdom bordering British possessions  the Zulu kingdom of King Cetshwayo KaMapande. However Cetshwayo had remained on the political defensive. This book descirbes the uniforms and equipment of the forces that Thesiger led across the border to wage war in Zululand.
language: English
title: British Forces in Zululand 1879
publisher: Osprey Publishing