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Isandhlwana

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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an isolated hill in Zululand, 8 m. S.E. of Rorke's Drift across the Tugela river, and 105 m. N. by W. of Durban. On the 22nd of January 1879 a British force encamped at the foot of the hill was attacked by about io,000 Zulus, the flower of Cetewayo's army, and destroyed. Of eight hundred Europeans engaged about forty escaped (see ZULULAND: History).

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Isandhlwana'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​i/isandhlwana.html. 1910.
 
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