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An Historical Atlas of the Zulu Rebellion of 1906. By Paul S. Thompson. Scottsville, South Africa: Privately published, 2001. ISBN 0-620-29275-X. Table of contents. List of abbreviations & symbols used. Maps. Bibliography. Pp. 73. Can be obtained by e-mailing the author at [email protected]. Priee: Rands 10O + postage.
The Anglo-Zulu War did not end, as moviegoers might assume, on 23-24 January 1879 at the battle of Rorke's Drift, where Stanley Baker and Michael Caine saw off a 4,000-strong Zulu impi with a little help from the South Wales Borderers. Nor did it end, as closer observers of the war might think, on the Fourth of july 1879, when British troops, lumbering forward in a great parallelogram bristling with Gatling guns, breechloaders, and cannon, managed to drive off a Zulu army of 20,000 men and burn Ulundi, the capital of Getshwayo, the Zulu king.
The final act in Zulu armed resistance to white encroachment on their lands and efforts to transform them from farmers and herders into farm laborers and mine workers came only in 1906. That uprising, long overshadowed by the events of 1879 and largely forgotten now, is the subject of Paul Thompson's Historical Atlas of the Zulu Rebellion of 1906. A research scholar at the...