We met up with Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, to learn about a weapon that was made famous by the Boer and Zulu Wars: the Martini-Henry rifle ...

On the same day, 145 South Wales Borderers held off another Zulu army attack at nearby Rorke's Drift where 17 Britons and 450 Zulu's died. This weekend marks two days of battle re-enactment ...

Pretorius and the Battle of Blood River The outcome of the Battle of Blood River is well known – the Voortrekkers’ force of 570 men under command of Andries Pretorius faced a Zulu army of 15 000 to 30 ...

Do they think they are peers of Mvundlana of the Biyelas, the commander of the Khandampemvu regiment, who aroused the Zulu army when it faltered by telling them that 'okaNdaba akashongo njalo'(King ...