dash colours isandhlwana Solider fighting battle war attack death fight charge Military army native shield The Battle of Isandlw
The Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was the opening, major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. A 20,000 strong Zulu army equipped mainly with spears and shields defeated a mixed British and native force armed with modern firearms and artillery. 850 British soldiers and around 450 African soldiers in British service died. Those in the firing line were killed to a man. Only 50 European enlisted men and five officers escaped, in addition to several hundred Africans who fled the battlefield. The Zulus suffered some 1,000 dead and many wounded. Isandlwana remains the worst military defeat for Britain at the hands of a colonial force. A decisive tactical victory for the Zulus, the defeat pushed the British into a much more aggressive approach to the Anglo-Zulu War, destroying King Cetshwayo's hopes of a negotiated peace. Sir Bartle Frere, High Commissioner of southern Africa for The British Empire, on his own initiative and without the approval of Her Majesty's Government,and with the intent of instigating a war with the Zulu, presented an ultimatum on 11 December 1878, to the Zulu king Cetshwayo with which the Zulu king could not comply. Cetshwayo did not comply, and Bartle Frere sent Chelmsford to invade Zululand. The Zulu Army was commanded by inDunas (Princes) Ntshingwayo kaMahole Khozalo and Mavumengwana kaNdlela Ntuli. The inDuna Dabulamanzi kaMpande, half brother of Cetshwayo, commanded the Undi Corps. While Chelmsford was in the field seeking them, the entire Zulu army had outmanoeuvred him, moving behind his force with the intention of attacking the British army on the 23rd. They were discovered at around by men of Lt. Raw's troop of scouts who chased a number of Zulus into a valley, only then seeing around 20,000 men of the main enemy force sitting in total quiet. Having been discovered the Zulu force leapt to the offensive.
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