#zulu war

[xanderxciv]

New Classics Challenge

Another New Classics Challenge. A simple one, using Zulu Warriors. Greeks got Spartans, Japanese got Samurai, we got Zulus.

Anyway, a man out of time. Mandla Zulu is literally the last of ancient Zulu, cursed immortality by an evil God for reasons currently unknown to him. But at first, he was a statue, forced to witness the downfall of the Zulu Empire, and every other struggle black people faced. Once he was freed, his only goal was to help Africa.

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[pancreasnostalgia]

Zulu War, by Vince Cross. Another event that I knew of, but didn’t know much about. The date range on the cover is slightly misleading as the story is set in 1879, with only the prologue and epilogue in 1882.

The text is easy enough to understand while still being detailed about Zulu culture.

Goodreads star rating: 3/5

[maddyaddy]

It's interesting that the Zulus did not have their kings command in person. Very much the opposite of what you'd expect as a white Westerner. Cetshwayo largely left leading the army up to his induna Mnyamana and Chief Ntshingwayo.

[liberty1776]

Incredible Isandlwana Wargame

[smak-annihilation]

people have been calling malevelon creek robot Vietnam, but I have to disagree with that

the Vietnam war was a war in which the main threat were guerilla tactics used by a technologically inferior foe

the automatons are the technologically superior ones here, they move in the open, rarely seeking shelter, our armies may be of similar size on the battlefield, but their numbers and ability to replace losess is incomparably greater than ours

if anything, malevelon creek is most alike to the Zulu war, and we're the Zulus

the only question is, have the british already shown their machine gun, or are their capabilaties even greater than we thought

[fasslayer]

Color commission. Digital illustration

[deceptigoons-attack]

oh my god, you’ve seen Zulu (1964)?! my dad made me watch it with him because I wouldn’t shut up about Waterloo (1970) and I suppose he was right to because it’s fully affirmed my love of war and war movies… I don’t understand why they’re building a bridge across a stream that can be crossed on foot, though? am I missing something?

Yes!!! 🤣 I've watched both of those so many times. 😂 I mean keeping in mind I haven't watched it in a long time, I think it's just because it would be more practical to have an actual bridge for troops to cross rather than slowly wading across through that shallow bit.

Some bonus stuff 🤣 I actually don't know when this photo is from, but it's of the Buffalo River (KwaZulu-Natal) near Rorke's Drift, so it at least gives an idea of what they were representing. I believe Chard was also just repairing the pontoon bridge(s) instead of building them, but that's a detail that isn't at all important to the movie. 🤣

[thegirlwhorunsforthetrain]

Zulu (1964)

A missionary, Otto Witt (Jack Hawkins) and his daughter Margareta (Ulla Jacobsson) watch British soldiers battle Zulu warriors at Rorke’s Drift. (more…)

[ukdamo]

Louis Napoleon

Oscar Wilde, here playing the ill-starred scion of nobility card to good effect, whilst praising democratic France.

Eagle of Austerlitz! where were thy wings When far away upon a barbarous strand, In fight unequal, by an obscure hand, Fell the last scion of thy brood of Kings!

Poor boy! thou shalt not flaunt thy cloak of red, Or ride in state through Paris in the van Of thy returning legions, but instead Thy mother France, free and republican,

Shall on thy dead and crownless forehead place The better laurels of a soldier's crown, That not dishonoured should thy soul go down To tell the mighty Sire of thy race

That France hath kissed the mouth of Liberty, And found it sweeter than his honied bees, And that the giant wave Democracy Breaks on the shores where Kings lay couched at ease.

*Louis Napoleon was the the only son of Napoleon III. He died a casualty of war, in a botched military operation during the Anglo-Zulu war.

[thephotopitmagazine]

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[maddyaddy]

The Victorian attitude towards soldiering would be starkly different to a modern-day American or even British observer. Public perception of the British Army was awful. People would rather their sons be dead than be in a red coat and pith helmet.

[panafrocore]

The Ndwandwe–Zulu War: A Turning Point in South African History

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[lightdancer1]

Wrapping up today with King Cetshwayo:

Cetshwayo, the last independent ruler of Zululand, was the ruler who led the fight against the British and who, after defeat, sough to keep up the fight to keep Zulu land Zulu and to resist the land grabs by both Boer and Briton. That he was one of many rulers who failed does not distinguish him from others, that he and his people outright won multiple major victories before their defeat instead of fighting a heroic but ultimately futile set of last stands to defy the courses of time, OTOH, very much does.

His career and his defeat marks an appropriate swansong prior to the Partition of Africa and in many ways the close of the era when European power in Africa was limited to enclaves either right on its coastlines or in the case of South Africa, the one significant zone of conquest that reached into the interior to any great degree.

[the-delta-42]

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[cinemaquiles]

Baseado em fatos reais: "Zulu Dawn" e a derrota dos britânicos na Batalha de Isandlwana