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Black soldiers of the queen : the Natal native contingent in the Anglo-Zulu War /
Africans who fought alongside the British against the Zulu king. "Black Africans made up more than half of the British army that invaded Zululand in January of 1879 and went on to fight the storied battles of Isandlwana, Rorke's Drift, and Ulundi. The British force totaled some 16,800 men,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2006.
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| Edición: | Rev. ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Africans who fought alongside the British against the Zulu king. "Black Africans made up more than half of the British army that invaded Zululand in January of 1879 and went on to fight the storied battles of Isandlwana, Rorke's Drift, and Ulundi. The British force totaled some 16,800 men, at least 9,000 of whom were Africans. Of these a few, perhaps as many as 1,000, were dissident Zulus. ... The bulk of the large African component, however, was comprised of the Natal Native Contingent (NNC), men recruited from Africans resident in Natal. "This is the force whose story Tho. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 179 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-179). |
| ISBN: | 9780817381806 0817381805 |