#Zulu #ZuluDawn #Isandlwana Battle of Isandlwana | History | Zulu Wars |
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Battle of Rorke's Drift video: https://youtu.be/jg1WxTJkxXQ
To this day, the battle of Isandlwana remains the worst defeat suffered by a British force at the hands of a native army. In this video we look at the events that lead up to this brutal engagement and how poor tactical decisions and overconfidence lead to the downfall of a once proud British Army.
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Sources:
BritishBattles.com/zulu-war
BBC Timewatch: Zulu - The True Story
Isandlwana by Ian Castle and Ian Knight
Ian Knight - Youtube Channel
Excerpts from:
Zulu (1964)
Zulu Dawn(1979)
I highly recommend checking the above films out!
May include miscellaneous licensed stock art.
Dramatic War Tension Background Instrumental | Royalty Free Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDBtP...
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Justin Kyle Guevarra
prieš 2 mėnesius
I believe that morethan 65 Million years ago, Africans belonged to a Kingdom that shared communal life with extraterrestrial beings and they fought battles with other human species after the Cretacous Era. As modern archeological studies become more convincing, interplanetary societies may have even existed with alien technology. If this is ever true, then Africa could have been the seat of intergalactic governments and commerce long before the greeks, romans, egyptians and those who lived in the Mesopotamian kingdoms.
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lexevo
prieš 8 mėnesius (redaguota)
If I could go back in time, I would chose to go back to Jan 1879 as one of the troopers in the 17th lancers. Can you imagine coming back to see the carnage of Isandlwana and stumbling across Melville and his mate across the river trying to save the colours. Then head to Rorkes drift and see the carnage of that battle. Talk to the survivors. Finally being at Ulundi and charging the fleeing enemy with lance, sword and carbine. After all that, return to Victorian era Great Britain as a hero with the most amazing journey and story.
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Robert Kitchen
prieš 1 mėnesį
The rifle, Martini Henry had the stopping power enough to drop a Rhino, was new ,but still single shot, Warfare was moving away from massed formations because of technology, under the intense heat of 45degrees ,& constant use ,the rifle overheated & the cartridge with copper casing, was difficult to load, impossible without a handkerchief & easily distorted in the intensity hot rifle. Rifles jamed! The chamber, if you had time could be cleared by disconnecting your bayonet & digging out the damaged cartridge, throw in a eclipse of the sun & all fell back on camp.As it was lost all who would want attempted to make an escape, Durnford & a British NCO held thier ground on the "neck" ,asking as men passed, "join us to make a stand "! Some did, & the Last square of Waterloo in the history of the British Empire was formed, As the Zulus said ,"It could not be broken whilst there ammunition lasted & even then they fought on with bayonet ,hand to hand ,& in 1 case a penknife, One of the greatest battles in colonial history, ON Both SIDES.
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Hidden Gunman
prieš 3 mėnesius (redaguota)
Keep in mind, the english have a habit of delivering overbearing terms with ridiculous compliance times. They did it to the Scots in the winter of 1744, in the dead of winter and deep snow, which was impossible to comply with, and then used non-compliance as an excuse to subjugate, persecute and terrorise the scot folk. Comment on the battle though...two companies, one of which was Younghusband's, were overrun in the process of attempting to pull back. The cairns marking their burial spots on the modern ground show that they were pretty much in full rout as they were killed, and are spread over a fairly long path of the zulu advance.
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Andrew Stackpool
prieš 2 mėnesius
Two stories rarely mentioned. Firstly, a unit of 30 men was surrounded and the Zulu commander halter action to give them time to say their prayers and farewell to each other before they were killed. Also the last British killed found shelter in a cave and continued firing for some time before he was killed. One person not mentioned was Bartlefrer who persuaded Chelmsford to invade. Cetewayo hoped for a fast victory as his main concern was getting the crops in the for the forthcoming winter. A disgusting episode in colonial history.
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Lyndon CMP
prieš 8 mėnesius (redaguota)
Chelmsford only divided his forces because the Natal Native Contingent got cut off out in the hills ten miles south east and sent a message to Chelmsford in the early hours requesting help as they feared being attacked by the Zulus in the morning. What else should Chelmsford have done?
1. Ignore the call for help?
2. Send out a token force which might itself get attacked and annihilated?
I feel he made the wisest decision. He sent a strong force out and kept a strong force back, to be reinforced by Durnfords 250 armed mounted men.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. He didn't really have much other choices.
It was the NNC commanders that decided to go chasing after Zulus so late in the day and then could not make it back to camp that evening. They got Chelmsford into that particular pickle. Nor did Durnford arriving and failing to reinforce the camp, as per Chelmsfords orders, help matters. Instead Durnford also went off chasing after the Zulus.
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Lyndon CMP
prieš 1 mėnesį
@Kilo Delta
There had been no such defences constructed in the near two weeks the army had crossed into Zululand and in fact they were more vulnerable when moving from Rorke's Drift to Isandlwana in the days before, strung out in long lines. Isandlwana could have been defended by the 12 companies there, for sure, even without fortified defences. No need for them.
Of course it's back breaking work to maneuver huge heavy British Army wagons (2 dozen men apiece were needed to move just 1 wagon) to protect a camp that is a kilometre in extent. That is no easy task. They weren't small, light Boer wagons. Plus the wagons were still needed for shuttle supply service to and from Rorke's Drift that morning.
More importantly (and this is vital), large numbers of Zulus were seen by a lookouts about 7.00 a.m and word got back to Pulleine. At about 8.00 a.m the alarm to 'stand to' in front of the tents was given and the 24th Foot stood to in front of the tents for 2 1/2 hours in preparation of a Zulu attack, until Durnford arrived after 10.00 a., and ordered them to stand down around 10.30. No time to carry out major defensive undertakings. Then Durnford left to chase after Zulus shortly after.
Building walls out of rocks?? 1 km in extent? How long is that going to take when the report of Zulus at 8.00 a.m came in? Pulleine rather stood the troops to, so they would be prepared for the coming Zulus.
The British army has never panicked at the first sign of trouble anyway. There were still 6 infantry companies, Colonial forces, the NNC and soon to arrive Durnford and his 250 or so armed horsemen.
It was the arrival of Durnford that upset the apple cart. Instead of acting strictly on the defensive and reinforcing the camp, Durnford chose to ride off to attack the Zulus, thus bring the battle on because the Zuus did not plan to attack until the next day.
We can see from Pulleine's morning 'stand to' order that, left to his own devises, Pulleine would have chosen a tighter defensive position just in front of the tents, where the men stood to earlier. However, Durnford forced Pulleine's hand and said he expected Pulleine to support him if he got into difficulties, which he did. Durnford choose to make a stand in the donga 1 mile out on the front right flank and Pulleine was forced to extend his line out far and wide to support Durnford's left flank.
Durnford is most to blame for the tactical blunders at Isandlwana itself. Chelmsford was not even there.
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Kilo Delta
prieš 1 mėnesį
@Lyndon CMP so split his forces, no such thing as back breaking work, there's just work if someone would have ordered those soldiers to build defences they would have constructed defences, it's just basic, whether it was filling hessian sacks or building walls out of rocks it would have been done, if your looking for the truth of what happened at Isandlawhana I wouldn't reference written reports as bad as they were they were written to cover Lord Chelmsford's (Queen Victoria's pick to lead the British Forces) ass who blamed everything on everyone else.
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Kilo Delta
prieš 3 mėnesius (redaguota)
I saw the phorensic examination of the battlefield, it was really eye opening, from finding the spent cartridges they could show how far apart each red coat was, they weren't standing shoulder to shoulder but up to six yards (5mtrs) apart and they were in single line not three deep for rank of fire or square, so once one or two soldier's were killed it left massive gaps in the line, once that happened it was game over. There was some nonsense about boxes of ammunition being screwed down and being issued slowly but that was disproved just by dropping an ammo box of that era on the ground and it falling apart or by simply opening it easily with an issue bayonet of the time, they also showed that because of the amount of fire and the heat of the day the rifles would overheat and lead to stoppages, once a very thin line of soldiers who were widely spaced apart started getting stoppeges in their rifles they were quickly killed and the gaps in the line quickly exploited. The battlefield detectives also found many damaged unfired cartridges on the line, and showed that because the metal of the cartridges was so soft that in the panic of the approaching Zulu warriors, the soldiers were loading their rifles incorrectly they would damage the cartridge and have to reload with a new cartridge. Basically these soldiers were badly led and made to believe that the spear and shield was no match for the Martini Henry and the bayonet. No effort was made to fortify their position/camp and the soldiers ultimately paid the price with their lives because of the ineptitude of their commanding officers.
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siphiwe m biyela
prieš 10 mėnesių
Why don't you mention that the Zulus first fought with thousands of Black natal cavalry which in Zulu we call them amambuka the Black collaborators which were easily defeated and after that it was then that they engaged the red coats. My ancestor fought in all these wars all the way to So called Bhambatha wars where he was eventually killed by the government troops around 1907/8
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Ph MWU
prieš 7 mėnesius
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