Nebula with 40% off annual subscription with my link: Watch Tipu Sultan: Tiger or Tyrant?: The Anglo-Zulu War in 1879 is one of the most well known colonial wars of the British Empire. And while the British ultimately won and annexed the Zulu Kingdom, at the Battle of Isandlwana they suffered one of their worst defeats. » SUPPORT US » THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje » SOURCES Norman Holme, The Noble 24th: Biographical Records of the 24th Regiment in the Zulu War and the South African Campaign 1877 to 1879. Saul David, Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 James Hammer Papers, James to his father, undated letter, National Army Museum. T.E. Newmarch Papers, ‘Looking Back’, unpublished memoir, Killie Campbell Africana Library, Durban William Wright, A British Lion in Zululand: Sir Garnet Wolseley in South Africa Donald Morris, The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Great Zulu Nation John Laband, Zulu Warriors John Laband, Fight Us in the Open: The Anglo-Zulu War Through Zulu Eyes Ian Beckett, Rorke’s Drift and Isandlwana Ken Gillings, The Battles of Kwa-Zulu Natal Jeff Guy, The Destruction of the Zulu Kingdom Ian Knight, The Anatomy of the Zulu Army Barry Johnson, The Life of Henry Hook VC Richard Cope, The Ploughshare of War: The Origins of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 Natal Mercury, 22 January 1929, ‘A Zulu Warrior Recalls the War’ »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Spencer Jones, Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Toni Steller Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: Research by: Spencer Jones Fact checking: Jesse Alexander Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster Contains licensed material by getty images and AP Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 Music Library: Epidemic Sound All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2023
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