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#TheMightyZulus Honouring General
Ntshingwayo kaMahole of the Khoza

Ntshingwayo Khoza (1809-1883) was the Commanding General of King Cetshwayo's Zulu Army during the first Anglo-Zulu War. He became known as Ntshingwayo kaMahole after being taken into foster care by Mahole of

the Khoza.

Ntshingwayo was given overall field command of the Zulu impi against the Centre Column of the first British invasion of Zululand in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. Despite conflicting orders - to meet the British Army's Centre Column in open battle to kill them, but

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also a private command from King Cetshwayo "not to go to the English at once [to attack] , but to hold a conference first and send some chiefs to the English to ask why they were laying the country waste and killing Zulus", Ntshingwayo successfully outmanoeuvred

Lt. Gen. Lord Chelmsford in the field.
Chelmsford had split the British contingent, sending out a large part of his forces on patrols from the main British camp at ISANDLWANA in an effort to find the Zulu Army, leaving the camp poorly defended and unfortified.

Ntshingwayo's

regiments attacked and virtually annihilated the encamped British army in the Battle Of ISANDLWANA on 22 January 1879, with a death toll of some 1,300 British troops, locally conscripted volunteers, native soldiers and camp followers. The British army suffered the bloodiest

defeat by the Zulu Army in its history and the worst defeat of the Victorian era.

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