Qualla: Battle of Hlobane https://qualla.com/battle-of-hlobane en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/n/4/battle-of-hlobane-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Hlobane https://qualla.com/battle-of-hlobane Battle of Hlobane: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-hlobane/ Photo credit me User:Geni, CC BY-SA 3.0. Lightning flickered over Hlobane through the night of 27 March 1879, and in the strobe of each flash, Zulu marksmen took aim at the British horsemen climbing the mountain in the dark. By the next morning, Colonel Evelyn Wood's men had reached the summit and begun driving off cattle, exactly as planned. Then five columns of warriors appeared on the plain below, far sooner than anyone expected, and the raid became a race for survival down a staircase of broken rock so murderous the men who lived through it named it Devil's Pass.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/n/4/battle-of-hlobane-wp/ken4-battle-of-hlobane-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Hlobane: The Mountain and the Plan https://qualla.com/battle-of-hlobane/ Photo credit File:Battle of Hlobane03.jpg: Lieutenant Slade R.A. derivative work: Dumelow, Public domain. Hlobane is one of the flat-topped mountains that rise abruptly from the plains of north-western Zululand, near the modern town of Vryheid. The abaQulusi people who held it lived far enough from the Zulu capital at Ulundi to fight largely for their own ground. Wood's task was to k...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/n/4/battle-of-hlobane-wp/ken4-battle-of-hlobane-the-mountain-and-the-plan.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Hlobane: The Trap Springs https://qualla.com/battle-of-hlobane/ Photo credit me User:Geni, CC BY-SA 3.0. Buller's troopers gained the summit and the herding began. Wood, climbing with a small escort, met a group of the Border Horse who twice refused his orders to advance into fire from the caves. He pressed on regardless. In the fighting that followed, his staff officer Captain Camp...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/n/4/battle-of-hlobane-wp/ken4-battle-of-hlobane-the-trap-springs.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Hlobane: Devil's Pass https://qualla.com/battle-of-hlobane/ Photo credit Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0. The only way down was the rocky chasm between the plateaux. Horses panicked on the loose boulders; men were thrown, crushed, or shot as the emboldened abaQulusi pressed in from above and the sides. The descent dissolved into chaos, every yard of it fought. Among the dead was Piet...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/n/4/battle-of-hlobane-wp/ken4-battle-of-hlobane-devils-pass.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Hlobane: Defeat and Reckoning https://qualla.com/battle-of-hlobane/ Photo credit me User:Geni, CC BY-SA 3.0. Hlobane was a clear Zulu victory, the third and last great one of the war after Isandlwana and the Ntombe River. Fifteen British officers and scores of soldiers were killed, and the African levies who had marched with the column suffered grievously, hundreds of them dead or scatt...

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