Britain Against the Xhosa and Zulu Peoples
Britain Against the Xhosa and Zulu Peoples Britain's war against the Zulu people of southern Africa in the late nineteenth century is one of the most famous clashes in the history of the British…
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Britain Against the Xhosa and Zulu Peoples
Britain's war against the Zulu people of southern Africa in the late nineteenth century is one of the most famous clashes in the history of the British empire, but her earlier wars against the Xhosa, also in southern Africa, are far less well known. That is why Stephen Manning's absorbing study of these colonial campaigns and Chelmsford's part in them is so timely and valuable.Chelmsford's military career and Britain's troubled relationship with the Xhosa people came together in 1878 with the conclusion of the 9th Frontier War, in which Chelmsford commanded the victorious British forces. And, although the role Lord Chelmsford played in the Anglo-Zulu War has been recounted in exhaustive detail, his earlier experience against the Xhosa has rarely been explored in the same intensive way.
Perhaps Chelmsford learned the wrong lessons from This conflict is vividly described here.
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