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Battle of Ulundi

Index Battle of Ulundi

The Battle of Ulundi took place at the Zulu capital of Ulundi on 4 July 1879 and was the last major battle of the Anglo-Zulu War. [1]

61 relations: Abashokobezi 1906–2006, African military systems (1800–1900), Anglo-Zulu War, Battle of Isandlwana, Benjamin Disraeli, Cecil D'Arcy, Cetshwayo kaMpande, Diorama, Drury Drury-Lowe, Edmond Townsend, Edmund O'Toole, Evelyn Wood (British Army officer), Francis Clery, Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, Frontier Light Horse, Harcourt Mortimer Bengough, History of Africa, Infantry square, John Chard, John Charlton (artist), John Robert Dunn, Joseph John Farmer, Julia, Lady Inglis, List of battles (alphabetical), List of battles (geographic), List of battles 1801–1900, List of battles in South Africa, List of cavalry recipients of the Victoria Cross, List of medical recipients of the Victoria Cross, List of Zulu War Victoria Cross recipients, Martini–Henry, Maxim gun, Melton Prior, Military history of South Africa, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Natal Native Contingent, Paul Kruger, Redvers Buller, Richard Harrison (British Army officer), Robert Scott-Kerr, Samuel Lomax, Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet, South Africa Medal (1880), Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, Transvaal Rangers, Ulundi, William Edward Moyses Reilly, Wiltshire Regiment, ..., Zulu Kingdom, Zulu people, 17th Lancers, 1879, 1879 in the United Kingdom, 1st King's Dragoon Guards, 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot, 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers), 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers), 94th Regiment of Foot, 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot. Expand index (11 more) »

Abashokobezi 1906–2006

Abashokobezi (1906–2006) is the third and so far final album by the South African music project Bambata, released in 2006, to commemorate the centennial of the Bambatha rebellion of 1906.

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African military systems (1800–1900)

African military systems (1800–1900) refers to the evolution of military systems on the African continent after 1800, with emphasis on the role of indigenous states and peoples within the African continent.

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Anglo-Zulu War

The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom.

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Battle of Isandlwana

The Battle of Isandlwana (alternative spelling: Isandhlwana) on 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom.

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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Cecil D'Arcy

Captain Henry Cecil Dudgeon D'Arcy VC (11 August 1850 – October 1881) was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Cetshwayo kaMpande

Cetshwayo kaMpande (c. 1826 – 8 February 1884) was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1873 to 1879 and its leader during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

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Diorama

The word diorama can either refer to a 19th-century mobile theatre device, or, in modern usage, a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model, sometimes enclosed in a glass showcase for a museum.

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Drury Drury-Lowe

Lieutenant-General Sir Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe GCB (3 January 1830 – 6 April 1908) was a British army officer.

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Edmond Townsend

Surgeon-General Sir Edmond Townsend (22 April 1845 - 2 January 1917), was a British army medical officer.

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Edmund O'Toole

Edmond Joseph O'Toole VC was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Evelyn Wood (British Army officer)

Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, (9 February 1838 – 2 December 1919) was a British Army officer.

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Francis Clery

Major General Sir Cornelius Francis Clery (13 February 1838 – 25 June 1926) was a British Army officer who took part in the Anglo-Zulu War and later commanded the 2nd Division during the Second Boer War.

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Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell

Field Marshal Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, GCB, GCMG, PC (29 April 1841 – 27 January 1925) was a British Army officer.

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Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford

Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford, PC, QC, FRS (25 April 1794 – 5 October 1878) was a British jurist and Conservative politician.

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Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford

Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, (31 May 18279 April 1905) was a British imperial general who came to prominence during the Anglo-Zulu War, when an expeditionary force under his command suffered one of the severest defeats in battle by native tribesmen in the history of the British Empire at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879.

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Frontier Light Horse

The Frontier Light Horse, a mounted unit of 200 volunteers, was raised at King William's Town, Eastern Cape Colony in 1877 by Lieutenant Frederick Carrington or the then Captain Buller.

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Harcourt Mortimer Bengough

Major General Sir Harcourt Mortimer Bengough KCB (25 November 1837 – 20 March 1922) joined the British Army in 1855, and retired in 1899, after more than forty years of distinguished service from the Crimea to all quarters of the Empire.

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History of Africa

The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and – around 5.6 to 7.5 million years ago.

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Infantry square

Historically an infantry square, also known as a hollow square, is a combat formation an infantry unit forms in close order usually when threatened with cavalry attack.

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John Chard

Colonel John Rouse Merriott Chard (21 December 1847 – 1 November 1897) was a British Army officer who received the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration for valour "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British armed forces.

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John Charlton (artist)

John Charlton (1849–1917) was an English painter and illustrator of historical and especially battle scenes, mainly from contemporary history.

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John Robert Dunn

John Robert Dunn (1833/34 – 5 August 1895) was a South African settler, hunter, and diplomat of Scottish descent.

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Joseph John Farmer

Joseph John Farmer VC (15 May 1854 – 30 June 1930) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Julia, Lady Inglis

Julia Selina, Lady Inglis (19 April 1833 – 3 February 1904) was the daughter of Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford, and wife of Major-General Sir John Eardley Inglis, who commanded the British troops at the Siege of Lucknow in 1857.

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List of battles (alphabetical)

Alphabetical list of historical battles (see also Military history, Lists of battles): NOTE: Where a year has been used to disambiguate battles it is the year when the battle started.

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List of battles (geographic)

This list of battles is organized geographically, by country in its present territory.

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List of battles 1801–1900

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List of battles in South Africa

List of Battles in South Africa is a list of all military conflicts or battles fought within the borders of South Africa.

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List of cavalry recipients of the Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is a military decoration that may be bestowed upon members of the British or Commonwealth armed forces for acts of valour or gallantry performed in the face of the enemy.

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List of medical recipients of the Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is a military decoration that may be bestowed upon members of the British or Commonwealth armed forces for acts of valour or gallantry performed in the face of the enemy.

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List of Zulu War Victoria Cross recipients

The Victoria Cross (VC) was awarded to 23 members of the British Armed Forces and colonial forces for actions performed during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

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Martini–Henry

The Martini–Henry is a breech-loading single-shot lever-actuated rifle that was used by the British Army.

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Maxim gun

The Maxim gun was a weapon invented by American-born British inventor Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1884: it was the first recoil-operated machine gun in production.

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Melton Prior

Melton Prior (12 September 1845 – 2 November 1910), was an English artist and war correspondent for The Illustrated London News from the early 1870s until 1904.

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Military history of South Africa

The military history of South Africa chronicles a vast time period and complex events from the dawn of history until the present time.

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Napoléon, Prince Imperial

Napoléon, Prince Imperial (full name: Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte, prince impérial; 16 March 1856 – 1 June 1879), also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, was the only child of Emperor Napoleon III and his Empress consort, Eugénie de Montijo.

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Natal Native Contingent

The Natal Native Contingent was a large force of auxiliary soldiers in British South Africa, forming a substantial portion of the defence forces of the British colony of Natal, and saw action during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War.

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Paul Kruger

Stephanus Johannes Paulus "Paul" Kruger (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century South Africa, and President of the South African Republic (or Transvaal) from 1883 to 1900.

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Redvers Buller

General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, (7 December 1839 – 2 June 1908) was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Richard Harrison (British Army officer)

General Sir Richard Harrison (26 May 1837 – 25 September 1931) was a British Army officer and engineer.

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Robert Scott-Kerr

Brigadier General Robert Scott-Kerr (2 November 1859 – 25 November 1942) was a British Army officer.

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Samuel Lomax

Lieutenant General Samuel Holt Lomax (August 1855 – 10 April 1915) was a British Army officer who commanded the 1st Division during the early battles of the First World War.

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Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Alexander Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet (20 July 1848 – 20 May 1930) was a Scottish landowner, soldier, adventurer and socialite.

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South Africa Medal (1880)

The South Africa Medal (1880), often referred to as the Zulu War Medal, is a campaign medal which was instituted in 1880 and awarded by the British Government to members of the British Army, Royal Naval Brigade and Colonial Volunteers who were involved in a series of South African tribal wars in the Cape of Good Hope, Colony of Natal and Transvaal between 1877 and 1879, most notably for the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

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Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh

Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, 7th Baronet (9 May 1849 – 19 April 1924) was a British baronet and soldier.

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Transvaal Rangers

Raaffs Horse, or Raaff's Transvaal Rangers, was an irregular unit raised by Cmdt Pieter Johannes Edward Raaff with a strength of approximately 140.

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Ulundi

Ulundi, also known as Mahlabathini is a town in the Zululand District Municipality.

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William Edward Moyses Reilly

Major General William Edward Moyses Reilly (13 July 1827 – 28 July 1886), born Scarragh, County Down, on 13 January 1827, was fourth son of James Miles Reilly of Cloon Eavin, Co.

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Wiltshire Regiment

The Wiltshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot and the 99th Duke of Edinburgh's (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot.

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Zulu Kingdom

The Kingdom of Zulu, sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire or the Kingdom of Zululand, was a monarchy in Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in the south to Pongola River in the north.

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Zulu people

The Zulu (amaZulu) are a Bantu ethnic group of Southern Africa and the largest ethnic group in South Africa, with an estimated 10–12 million people living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.

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17th Lancers

The 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1759 and notable for its participation in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.

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1879

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1879 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1879 in the United Kingdom.

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1st King's Dragoon Guards

The 1st King's Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army.

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58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot

The 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot was a British Army line infantry regiment, raised in 1755.

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80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers)

The 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793.

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90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers)

The 90th Perthshire Light Infantry was a Scottish light infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1794.

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94th Regiment of Foot

The 94th Regiment of Foot was a British Army line infantry regiment, raised as the Scotch Brigade in October 1794.

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99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot

The 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1824.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ulundi

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