the battle of isandlwana

in the anglo zulu wars the main british column was attacked and destroyed by overwhelming Zulu numbers the same day as the great victory over the zulus at rorkes drift

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[elcbent]

@CREvoTheGreat The game is Empire: Total War, which is indeed set in the 18th-early 19th century, not the late 19th. The video looks like someone's attempt to recreate Rourke's Drift in the game, although the game itself is not set in this era. It's actually tremendous fun for fans of military history. The Total War serious in general is terrific.

[CREvoTheGreat]

what game is this?

u'd think they'd do some research on what era the brit army was in.

[RyanBrooksby]

@edavismookie25

What?

Chaka Zulu gave that land to Britain.

Shaka Zulu killed him and tried to take the land away.

Britain only defended what land was, politically theirs.

[edavismookie25]

@RyanBrooksby to impose a culture or religion on their fellow Africans because of a seemingly superior culture ideology, they were not colonized in order to make a nation 3,000 away rich by extracting its resources and people, etc. I can go on and on and on the fact of the matter is the British were there for one reason. To take what was not theirs from a people whom they considered inferior. I don't think the Zulu felt the same way about their fellow Africans as the U.K. felt about them all.

[edavismookie25]

@RyanBrooksby Of course they aren't native to South Africa. Every nation on earth at one time or another I am sure faced local/region conflicts with neighboring people. What made the British incursion into South Africa however is quite different. For example, I doubt the Zulu had a distaste for the tribes that they were fighting because they were dark skinned, I don't think that there was a collaborative effort to make their fellow Africans subservient because of their race, they didn't try

[RyanBrooksby]

@edavismookie25

you know Zulu's AREN'T from S.Africa, right?

Zulu's originate from C.Africa, and are actually an invading Empire the same as the British.

Ask any modern day Zulu (yes they do exist) they're not native to S.Africa where the battles were fought.

[Nukethelotofthem1]

The soldiers depicted are from the 18th century not the nineteenth but I liked the music.

[Subjugator1866]

@edavismookie25 no. THIS is why they are sand niggers:

/watch?v=wJR3keih6CQ#t=01m20s

[edavismookie25]

@Subjugator1866 Are they sand niggers because they were defending their country against an invader that sought to exploit and colonize them?

[TheMart96]

@Spartakkus11127 It's the Crimson tide theme