Battle of Ulundi
July 4, 1879
Six months after Isandlwana, the British marched on the Zulu royal kraal in a hollow square formation bristling with Martini-Henrys and Gatling guns. The warriors charged, were shot down in windrows, and scattered. Ulundi was burned; King Cetshwayo was captured weeks later. The Zulu kingdom as an independent power was finished.
In context
Also in 1879 (4 other events on record)
- Battle of Isandlwana · Africa · War
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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