Isandlwana
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: Cassell
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780304357000
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; Battles & campaigns; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - General History; History: World; Republic of South Africa; Africa - General; History / Modern / 19th Century; Isandlwana, Battle of, South A; Isandlwana, Battle of, South Africa, 1879
Description: The Zulu handed the British one of the biggest disasters in their colonial history. Ignoring orders to the contrary, Viscount Chelmsford led his troops into Zululand in 1879, establishing a camp at Islandlwana. But, while Chelmsford and about half his men were away trying to intercept a Zulu force, the camp was hit by a surprise attack. When the Viscount returned the next day, the area was strewn with bodies: of the 1600 troops, all but 55 Europeans and 300 natives had been killed. Armed with new information from recent excavation of the battle site, and important never-before-published documents, Adrian Greaves challenges all previous interpretations of the attack that proved once and for all that the British army was not invincible.