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The Fire of Venture Was in His Veins
The Shangani or Allan Wilson's Patrol was a minor incident in the British expansion in Africa. Much smaller in scale than the massacre of Isandlwana , the fate of the Patrol was a …
From the Atacama to the Andes
With the break up of the Spanish empire in South America, the continent split into nine independent states with often ill-defined boundaries. One of these was that between Bolivia …
British Military Panoramas
Originating in Britain in the 1780s, 360 panorama paintings were extremely popular in the first half of the nineteenth century and, after a revival, in the last quarter of the …
The Battle of Lissa, 1866
It has often been said that, so slow was the process of change in naval warfare, Sir Francis Drake would if he was transported to the quarterdeck of the Victory not feel out of …
Onwards to Omdurman
The Battle for the Swiepwald, 3rd July 1866
The Rise of the Sikh Soldier
The Zulu Kingdom and the Boer Invasion of 1837-1840
The invasion in 1837 of the Zulu kingdom by Boers migrating from the British Cape Colony, and the massacres, battles and civil war that ensued between 1838-1840 as the Zulu …