Heute vor 147 Jahren fand die Schlacht von Isandlwana statt, in der britische Soldaten die Zulu-Streitkräfte besiegten und bewiesen, dass indigene Streitkräfte moderne europäische Truppen im offenen Kampf besiegen konnten. Diese Karte zeigt mithilfe von Google Earth, wie die Schlacht Minute für Minute stattfindet.

To be clear; the Zulu forces, while mostly armed with traditional weapons like spears and shields did have _some_ firearms and outnumbered the British 10 to 1

To be fair they were „Zulus, thousands of them.“

The Zulus did have modern weapons, especially their elite royal units. Furthermore, they outnumbered the British, who didnt know the terrain were outnumbered overwhelmingly, their total numbers constituting only 7.3% of the Zulu Army. The solar eclipse also blinded the British which was taken advantage off by the Zulus to their credit. Regardless, 1300 British troops would die in the battle. 3000 Zulu troops were killed as well. It was a very pyrhic victory if at all. The British would return in force and crush the Zulus at Ulundi, Gingindlovu, and also crushed the Zulus at Kambula despite being outnumbered 10:1, with the zulu army at Kambula under Mnyamana kaNgqengelele arguably being a near peer in firearms, only lacking field guns. Isandlwana was memorialized by the British themselves to show that the Zulus were a ’noble‘ people and kingdom. Its actual military value was utterly nil in the grand strategy of the Anglo-Zulu War.

A particularly sharp mango

Couldn’t help but hear „who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler…“ seeing this video start

Looks like a pyrrhic victory.

Zulus were and are not indigenous to South Africa, to be clear. Their kingdom itself was an imperialist, expansionist one and not native to the area.

Maybe a better description would be that this is an example of an Iron Age style society being able to defeat a modern force in an isolated engagement – although granted the Zulus outnumbered the British forces more than 10-to-1 and had picked up weapons and tactics from earlier encounters with Europeans. And immediately (literally later that same day) after a Zulu force of 4000 warriors was defeated by a ragtag British force at Rorkes Drift which was outnumbered over 20-to-1.

Didn’t Crazy Horse do it first?

And South Africa lived happily ever after. No need to research any further.

First I thought what Lithuania is doing here.

22,000 vs 4,000. Pretty clear who the winner would be.

Pyrrhic victory…

Now do Rourkes Drift.

Zulu LOST the wars & Kingdom by the end. Right?