We met up with Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, to learn about a weapon that was made famous by the Boer and Zulu Wars: the Martini-Henry rifle ...
About 4,000 people gathered in the eastern town of Isandlwana on Saturday to commemorate the 125th anniversary of one of the Anglo-Zulu War's most brutal battles. About 1,500 British soldiers and ...
The Harris Hawks, called Maverick and Zulu, have been introduced in Beverley and Driffield, East Yorkshire, and Filey, in North Yorkshire, as part of a three-month trial. Train operator Northern ...
The 146th anniversary of the Battle of Isandlwana, a pivotal moment in African and British colonial history ... Henry rifles used during the Anglo-Zulu War. The challenges, however, extended ...
Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not. — The Modern Traveller, Hilaire Belloc In the war with the Zulu people of South Africa in 1879, the British suffered a humiliating ...