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The album contains 100 captioned watercolours from his time in the Anglo-Zulu War, as well as 24 sketches he created with pencil or pen and ink. After Lloyd’s untimely death at 41 in 1897 – he ...
Some of his sketches were used to illustrate reports ... Rattray, who was an expert on the Anglo-Zulu War and a well-known promoter of tourism to South Africa’s historic battlefields, was ...
Anglo-Zulu war reenactors dressed in historic military uniforms and traditional outfits have recreated the Battle of Isandlwana 140 years later. The infamous battle, the first clash of the war ...
The movie is set during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and follows a group of 150 British soldiers who fend off thousands of Zulu warriors. Caine stars as an inexperienced lieutenant officer in the ...
In 1964, he starred in "Zulu," a film about the 1879 Battle of Rorke’s Drift amid the Anglo-Zulu war. An Internet Movie Database summary described the battle as one where "150 troops will fight ...
Michael Caine was just 29 when he shot Zulu, the 1964 war classic depicting the 1879 Battle of Rorke’s Drift, which took place during the Anglo-Zulu War. Earning £4000 (around £70,000 today ...
In his latest book the well-known historian Ian Knight permits himself the leisure to explore topics and aspects of the Anglo-Zulu War for which he’s never had “quite space enough to explore ...
The Anglo-Zulu War, fought in 1879, was a clash between a colonial giant seeking to expand, and the Zulus, fighting to retain their independence. The British, who wanted to create a kingdom ...
Archaeologists have revealed details of soldiers' battle for survival during a bloody siege in the Anglo-Zulu War. The colonial war in 1879 was dramatised by Michael Caine in the film Zulu. Historians ...