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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399442" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The battle of Isandhlwana</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shaded by a wild fig tree <br>where the Tugela river enters the ocean<br>representatives of British queen Victoria<br>demanded that the Zulus give up<br>their independence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Zulu king Cetshwayo <br>would never again send his impi<br>into battle against the Boer farmers, <br>but the British his impi would spear<br>and bash to death<br>and he ordered <br>his general Nishingwayo KaMahole Khoza<br>to halt the British invaders.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Zulu commander remembered the battle<br>at Blood River well<br>where four hundred and seventy <br>Boer farmers fought<br>from behind their wagons<br>which they had drawn against each other<br>to form a almost impenetrable laagered fort<br>where only three Boer farmers were injured, <br>using flint lock rifles<br>three thousand of his warriors were killed, <br>and thousands more injured</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he knew that the Zulu faced there<br>an enemy trained through several generations<br>waging war against fierce men and cruel beasts<br>in harsh circumstances<br>making them marksmen and exceptional horsemen<br>believing in a almighty God<br>with whom they made a covenant<br>while asking for His help<br>and some warriors reported<br>spirits aiding the Boer fighters there, <br>but maybe that was as superstitions go.<br> <br>These British soldiers <br>wore red and white costumes<br>as if going to a festival, <br>didn’t look rugged at all<br>and even under the fig tree<br>they were red from sunburn<br>and although they probably<br>prayed to the same god<br>as the Boer farmers<br>his translators told him<br>that they didn’t look so devoted<br>and talked about a empire<br>and the power of their new guns<br>having come for a adventure<br>and he decided to give them one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nishingwayo looked <br>the British through thoroughly<br>saw Lord Chelmsford moving<br>his men over the Buffalo river<br>to Isandhlwana Hill<br>where the country deceivingly looked<br>open and stretched out<br>and at the foot of the hill<br>the British set up their camp.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Very cleverly the Zulu commander<br>sneaked his impi armed with assegais<br>and clubs, <br>carrying leather shields<br>into the narrow valley <br>running up to the hill</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then he send <br>a small force <br>to draw the British out<br>of their camp<br>to follow it in vain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The witchdoctors warned<br>the Zulu commander<br>against a attack, <br>but a scouting patrol of the British<br>by chance encountered<br>the front Zulu position.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ignoring his spiritual advisors<br>Nishingwayo got his impi<br>into war formation<br>forming up like a storming Buffalo bull<br>into a chest and two horns<br>on the confused British camp.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord Chelmsford and his men believed <br>that the battle formation<br>of the square<br>could withstand any attack, <br>with their Martini-Henri rifles<br>but at Isandhlwana that square broke, <br>shattered under attack<br>from thousands of Zulus<br>who with shining spears and clubs<br>rushed in like a huge thunderbolt<br>screaming their ear splitting battle cries: <br>Ngathi impi and Abatagati </div><div style="margin:10px 0">sounding like thunder<br>from thousands of voices<br>and swarm upon swarm <br>of spears filled the sky<br>making the sun disappear</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the Zulu war formation<br>annihilated the British<br>closing in<br>like a tremendous crashing wave<br>sweeping all resistance away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stabbing, slicing, bashing<br>that great impi went right through<br>the British defenders<br>sparing none at Isandlwana<br>and marched away<br>heavy laden with booty<br>with some warriors<br>helping the wounded along<br>still singing their battle songs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and only two regiments<br>under Dabulamanzi pursued <br>the retreating survivors<br>to Rorke’s drift mission station<br>which was only <br>but a side show<br>of that great battle<br>which the British lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: Impi= Zulu army. Assegai = spear. At Isandlwana 1329 British soldiers were killed and eleven soldiers were honoured as heroes at Rorke’s Drift with Victoria Crosses. Ngathi impi=> “Because of us, war” Abatagati=> “Kill the magicians.” The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle (comments on the excellence as marksmen, horsemen and on the dedication of the Boer farmers as to patriotism and religion.) The word Boer is both Dutch and Afrikaans for farmer.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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