Introduction : the stakes of war -- Grounds for aggression -- The Zulu polity and the ultimatum -- Opposing armies -- The Battle of Islandwana -- The Battle of Rorke's Drift -- Defeat on the coast and ...

Medals from one of the last-known survivors of the legendary Battle of Rorke's Drift - immortalised in the film Zulu - will go on sale next month. The medals of Alfred Saxty, who was just 22 at the ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A 217-year-old church with Britain's only stained-glass window commemorating the deaths of soldiers killed in the Zulu War is for sale but to a buyer who can pay restoration ...

AFA copy gift from Janet Stanley. "The defence of Rorke's Drift inspired Victorian Britain and has featured in a classic movie and numerous historical works - it is still remembered as an iconic ...

I had occasion recently to watch, for maybe the fourth time in my life, Cy Endfield's a terrific 1964 epic about the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879, particuarly the famed when a contingent of perhaps 150 ...

The Historian is seeking manuscripts on all regional, temporal, and thematic fields of history. Submissions are expected to meet the highest standards of academic quality, have an original point, be ...

ONE of the largest private collections of Zulu war artifacts, books, postcards and other memorabilia ever assembled is to go under the hammer later this month. Dennis Slack spent 25 years building the ...

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The Battle of Rorke’s Drift took place in KwaZulu-Natal, during the Anglo-Zulu War, in 1879. The Irish team’s second-half ...

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Richard Holledge’s “Grappling With History” (Arts in Review, Jan. 6) mentions the Boer War in the context of a painting with “1879” in its title and a reference to a primitive-appearing enemy with ...