Hlobane and Khambula: The Forgotten Epic of How the Anglo-Zulu War Was Lost and Won Bartlett W. B.
Hlobane and Khambula: The Forgotten Epic of How the Anglo-Zulu War Was Lost and Won Bartlett W. B. While the Anglo-Zulu War is now best remembered for two battles, the stunning British defeat at…
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Hlobane and Khambula: The Forgotten Epic of How the Anglo-Zulu War Was Lost and Won Bartlett W. B.
While the Anglo-Zulu War is now best remembered for two battles, the stunning British defeat at Isandlwana and the victory against the odds at Rorke's Drift, two others at Hlobane and Khambula eerily mirrored them. In addition to these two battles, a British force was massacred on the Ntombe River and the region was the last to surrender. At Hlobane the British stared disaster in the face again and just about escaped, while at Khambula they inflicted a crushing defeat on the Zulu army and turned the war on its head.
It also saw the British hanging on after Isandlwana through the determination and grit of two men, Colonels Evelyn Wood and Redvers Buller, both Victoria Cross winners and arguably amongst the greatest heroes of the war. It was a war of ambushes and night attacks, of raids and counter-raids, of visceral intensity and bitterness and two massive battles. Humbler heroes too