MILITARY GENERAL
“Overdue for a home posting, a British imperial battalion – the 1/24th – is taken to Natal to spearhead an invasion of Zululand. Less than two weeks later – on 22 January 1879 – more than 400 of its officers and men lie dead on the battlefield at Isandlwana. The gripping account of this bloody battle constitutes the climax of a story which begins four years earlier, with the arrival of the 1/24th at the Cape of Good Hope on New Year’s Day 1875. Their tour of duty is described in detail, and includes accounts of the ‘Black Flag’ rebellion in Kimberley, a Griqua uprising, and Colonel Rowland’s campaign against Sekhukhune. Soon, however, the emphasis shifts to the Cape Colony’s troubled eastern frontier, and a full account is given of the historically much neglected Ninth Frontier War, including the first-ever detailed account of the Battle of Centane.”
288 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. #161023 First Edition
Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 24th (2nd Warwickshire). Battalion, 1st — History
Zulu War, 1879 — Regimental histories — Great Britain
Isandlwana (South Africa), Battle of, 1879