1. ISANDLWANA , 22nd January 1879..........................................................................................

The Famous defeat of the British by the Zulus at the start of their campaign was the tragic result of a series of military blunders by Lord Chelmsford, who vastly underestimated the Zulu military guile.

2. FUGITIVES DRIFT , 22nd January 1879.....................................................................................

"Zulus seemed to be behind, before, and on each side of us,and as we hurried on we had to leave fugitives crying and begging us not to leave them behind" Trooper N.W Barker, Natal Carbineers.

3. RORKE’S DRIFT , 22nd January 1879........................................................................................

"The white men had by this time made their preparations; they were quite ready. The Zulus arrived at Rorke's Drift. They fought, they yelled, they shouted.'It dies at the entrance! It dies in the doorway!' They stabbed at the sacks; they dug with their assegais. They were struck; they died"
Description of the fighting by Munyo of the uThulwana inutho in " A Zulu
Boy's Recollection of the Zulu War" G.H. Swinny , London 1884.

4. THE SLAYING OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL , 1ST JUNE 1879.............................................................

"He fought like a lion, and we did not dare to close with him until he sank down facing us, when we rushed on him." Langalebalele, one of the party who killed the Prince, written to Sir Evelyn Wood 26th May 1880.
Louis Napoleon was the heir to the French throne and the only son of Emperor Napoleon III and his wife Eugene.