Qualla: Battle of Kambula https://qualla.com/battle-of-kambula 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/j/f/battle-of-kambula-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Kambula https://qualla.com/battle-of-kambula Battle of Kambula: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-kambula/ Photo credit Archibald Forbes, Arthur Griffiths and others., Public domain. The warriors had not eaten in three days. Roughly twenty thousand of them came on toward the ridge at Kambula on 29 March 1879, many carrying Martini-Henry rifles stripped from British dead at Isandlwana two months before, where the Zulu had won one of the most stunning victories ever scored against a colonial army. They had every reason to expect another. What they met instead was an entrenched camp, a ring of locked wagons, and gun crews who knew exactly what canister shot does to a charging line at close range. By dusk the ground was carpeted with their dead, and a kingdom that had walked onto this plain certain of victory walked off it certain of nothing.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/j/f/battle-of-kambula-wp/kejf-battle-of-kambula-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Kambula: The Camp on the Ridge https://qualla.com/battle-of-kambula/ Photo credit Archibald Forbes, Arthur Griffiths and others., Public domain. Colonel Evelyn Wood had built his position to be attacked. On a ridge stood a hexagonal laager of wagons chained tight, a separate kraal for the cattle, and a stone redoubt on a rise to the north. Trenches and earth parapets ringed it all. Six seven-pounder guns covered the appro...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/j/f/battle-of-kambula-wp/kejf-battle-of-kambula-the-camp-on-the-ridge.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Kambula: The Horns Close In https://qualla.com/battle-of-kambula/ Photo credit Orlando Norie, Public domain. The Zulu came in the classic formation, the chest driving forward while two horns swept wide to envelop. Wood sent Redvers Buller's horsemen out to provoke the right horn early, before the whole army could strike together. The riders fired a volley and raced back, eleven thousand...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/j/f/battle-of-kambula-wp/kejf-battle-of-kambula-the-horns-close-in.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Kambula: Unwavering Courage, Unanswerable Guns https://qualla.com/battle-of-kambula/ Photo credit Archibald Forbes, Arthur Griffiths and others., Public domain. Wood ordered a counterattack. Two companies of the 90th Light Infantry, led by Major Hackett, fixed bayonets and charged across open ground to drive the warriors back over the ravine's lip. It worked perfectly, until Zulu marksmen in the surrounding huts opened on Hackett's flank...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/j/f/battle-of-kambula-wp/kejf-battle-of-kambula-unwavering-courage-unanswerable-guns.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Kambula: No Quarter https://qualla.com/battle-of-kambula/ Photo credit Archibald Forbes, Arthur Griffiths and others., Public domain. What followed was not a battle but a hunt. Wood loosed Buller with six hundred horsemen, and the pursuit toward Zunguin Nek became a slaughter. Mounted men fired from the saddle, clubbed warriors with their carbines, speared the exhausted with discarded assegais. One officer told...

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