Zulu Dawn Battle 1/3

Battle scenes from the Movie Zulu Dawn

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• Zulu
• british
• african
• native
• tribe
• tribal
• empire

[supersmash43]

@TheViper23232323 The only reason the Zulu won this battle was because they out numbered their opponents 14:1 and performed a very successful Zerg Rush...I mean Zulu Rush!

[lonewulf44]

@bertraand More like British command humiliated ... given proper placement and leadership and it's likely that British casualties would be in the single digits ... just take a look at some of the Sudan battles a decade later ... the troops were not the problem.

[killzone2000]

lol the british were grossly outnumbered and poorly led but still inflicted identical casualties on the zulus

[kozmon0t]

@ORKSIZDABEST yeah, but were they longbows, wielded by real longbowmen

[ORKSIZDABEST]

@supersmash43 Stell, you dont beat rifflemen with spears bows and arrows very often.

[ORKSIZDABEST]

@kozmon0t They used bows in this battle, just it's omited in the movie.

[kozmon0t]

if the Zulus had expert longbowmen, there would have been a lot more interesting battles than this one. They were well-trained in the superior-numbers method of beating guns with spears, but if they'd had some longbowmen helping out, it would have worked more often. Longbows have twice the rate of fire of muzzle-loading firearms.

[ltsAustin]

240p... we meet again.

[Y2KillerSPOOBLY]

Interesting fact for you: The zulu were instructed to 'kill the red soldiers only', to avoid killing civilians with the British column. Thus some officers wearing their dark blue or black uniforms were spared.

[paulinus43ad]

@supersmash43 got to respect the British disipline but,, what about the British attitude ,,they are just blackies,,,,, not soldiers,,,,,no respect,, their undoing,, as other European armies found out,,,,,

[edavismookie25]

@supersmash43 And wouldn't the defenders stand to outnumber an invader anyway?

[edavismookie25]

@supersmash43 Can't that be said about most battles though? The only reason an opponent wins is because of sheer weight of numbers?