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In the early 1880s, Britain intervened in independent Egypt and seized control of the Suez...
Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain...
The short but savage Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 pitched well-equipped but complacent British...
Between 1845 and 1872, various groups of Maori were involved in a series of wars of resistance...
The Maori people of New Zealand were experienced field engineers and it was common practice to...
On 11 January 1879 the British Empire went to war with the independent kingdom of Zululand. The...
Their lifestyle of hunting for sport and profit honed the Boers' skills of field-craft,...
The Zulu War of 1879 remains one of the best known British colonial wars and included two...
The battle of Isandlwana fought on 22 January 1879 was the greatest defeat suffered by the...
Over the space of two centuries, the original Dutch settlers of South Africa, augmented by a...
On 11 October 1899 the Second Boer War between the British and the Boers began. The war saw the...
Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness...
Zulu military organisation was extremely sophisticated. Warriors were organised into regiments...
In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the...
In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa...
On 4 March, 1878 at King William's Town, British Kaffraria, Gen. Sir Arthur Cunnynghame handed...
Due to the spread of British strategic and commercial interests during the Victorian period, the...
By the time Queen Victoria came to the throne, India - some 1,600,000 square miles, ranging from...
The British Army in Queen Victoria's reign fought a series of regional campaigns against various...
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