Medals from one of the last-known survivors of the legendary Battle of Rorke's Drift - immortalised in the film Zulu - will go on sale next month. The medals of Alfred Saxty, who was just 22 at the ...

The war began with a British invasion of Zululand, and ended with almost 8,000 dead, a British victory and Zulu independence. Now, a Zulu shield from the 1879 war is being put up for auction. The rare ...

Introduction : the stakes of war -- Grounds for aggression -- The Zulu polity and the ultimatum -- Opposing armies -- The Battle of Islandwana -- The Battle of Rorke's Drift -- Defeat on the coast and ...

NEXT month sees the star-studded screening of the great military epic that tells the story of one of the most heroic stands in British military history. Scroll down for a chance to win tickets to the ...

This book is a re-issue of an earlier work by Edmund Yorke entitled Rorke’s Drift 1879: Anatomy of an Epic Zulu War Siege (Tempus, 2001) but is none the worse for it. Drawn mainly from primary sources ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Wars Across the World: Zulu 1879 Zulu 1879 recreates the British military campaign leading up to the destruction of the belligerent Zulu kingdom in South ...

Queen Mpumi and head of KwaZulu culture Gugu Ngcobo attended the dinner. Members of the Zulu royal family are completing a visit to Wales ahead of next year's 140th anniversary of the Anglo-Zulu War.

Britain had no reason to cherish the Zulu king Cetshwayo kaMpande in the early days of 1879. He inflicted on the British Empire the most crushing military defeat it had known, claiming the lives of ...

At the foot of a steep hillside lined with dry grass and littered with grey-brown boulders, Alistair Lamont was trying his best to imitate the sound of 4,000 Zulu warriors approaching over the ridge. ...

An epic 138-minute-long war film has been voted the "best British war film" of all time, and it is streaming free on two platforms. Think Defence gave Zulu the honour, a film that fans hail for its ...

Queen Mpumi and head of KwaZulu culture Gugu Ngcobo attended the dinner. Members of the Zulu royal family are completing a visit to Wales ahead of next year's 140th anniversary of the Anglo-Zulu War.