The ignominious defeat suffered by the British in the Anglo-Zulu War was a blot on an impressive British military history. Not only did this war celebrate Zulu triumph over colonialism ...

About 1,500 British soldiers and 2,000 ... 1879 -- the most crushing defeat of the war for the British -- after they attempted to disperse the Zulu army. On the same day, 145 South Wales Borderers ...

However, that war proves more difficult than the arrogant British commander, Lord Chelmsford, expects as his overburdened army fruitlessly ... skill and might of the Zulu nation.

The Maxim gun was a major piece of technology that added greatly to British military superiority in ... Hilaire Belloc In the war with the Zulu people of South Africa in 1879, the British suffered ...