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Such was his confidence in British military training and firepower that he divided his force, departing the camp at dawn on January 22 with approximately 2,800 soldiers—including half of the British infantry contingent, together with around 600 auxiliaries—to find the main Zulu force with the intention of bringing them to battle so as to ...
- 22 January 1879
The names of 6 men of the 90th, and another 9 attached to the personal Staff of the Lieutenant-General as servants, all killed at Isandhlwana & published in a separate despatch, are reproduced at the bottom of the page.
Combatants at the Battle of Isandlwana: Zulu army against a force of British troops, Natal units and African levies. Commanders at the Battle of Isandlwana: Lieutenant Colonel Pulleine of the 24 th Foot and Lieutenant Colonel Durnford commanded the British force at the battle.
- Tristan Hughes
- Lord Chelmsford invaded Zululand with a British army on 11 January. The invasion came after Cetshwayo, the king of the Zulu Kingdom, did not reply to an unacceptable British ultimatum that demanded (among other things) he disband his 35,000-strong army.
- Chelmsford made a fundamental tactical error. Confident that his modernised army could easily quash Cetshwayo’s technologically inferior forces, Chelmsford was more worried that the Zulus would avoid fighting him on the open field.
- 1,300 men were left to defend Isandlwana… Half of this number were either native auxiliaries or European colonial troops; the other half were from British battalions.
- … but the camp was not suited for defence. Chelmsford and his staff decided not to erect any substantial defences for Isandlwana, not even a defensive circle of wagons.
Of the 1,700 men tasked with defending the camp, 52 British officers, 806 rank and file soldiers and 471 African troops had been killed. On the Zulu side, an estimated 2,000 lay dead. The Battle of Isandlwana was - and remains to this day - the worst defeat ever inflicted by a native force on the British Army.
Jan 25, 2014 · The battle of Isandlwana in 1879 - in which a force of 20,000 Zulus annihilated a British contingent of 1,800 men - became a symbol to black South Africans that white domination was not...
The majority of their 1,700 troops were killed. Supplies and ammunition were also seized. The Zulus earned their greatest victory of the war and Chelmsford was left no choice but to retreat.
