Lieutenants Melvill and Coghill try to escape with the Queen's Colours during the Battle of Isandlwana, South Africa, 22 January 1879, the first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War.

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Lieutenants Melvill and Coghill try to escape with the Queen's Colours during the Battle of Isandlwana, South Africa, 22 January 1879, the first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War. From The Century Edition of Cassell's History of England, published c. 1900

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