An eclipse of the sun that halted fighting occurred about an hour before the end of this battle.
An eclipse of the sun that halted fighting occurred about an hour before the end of this battle. The eventual losers were lulled into overconfidence by the presence of their new Martini-Henry rifles and as a result no wagon perimeter was set up by Lord Chelmsford. That same night an equally fierce battle was waged at the nearby site of Rorke's Drift. Despite victory at the latter locale, the British plan to strike toward the enemy kraal at Ulundi was undone by this loss. FTP, name this 1879 defeat of British forces by roughly 20,000 Zulu warriors.
An eclipse of the sun that halted fighting occurred about an hour before the end of this battle.
Battle of {Isandlwana}