The Anglo-Zulu War

In 1879, British forces marched into Zululand expecting an easy win. They were wrong.
At Isandlwana, 25,000 Zulu warriors executed a devastating assault and slaughtered over 1,300 troops in an afternoon - the worst defeat in Victorian military history. That same afternoon, just a few miles away, 150 British soldiers faced 3,000 warriors at Rorke's Drift. And somehow, they held.

To take us through the Anglo-Zulu War and these two epic battles, we're joined by Ian Knight, historian and author of 'Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift’.

Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.

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