The Battle of Isandlwana 130 Years On | BiG Breakfast Productions |

The Battle of Isandlwana - 130 Years on - A montage looking back at the greatest military defeat ever suffered by a British force. A BiG Breakfast Production. A big thank you to the AMAZING artwork of Robert Revels. He has an amazing blog. Check it out. Also a big thank you to Gavin Slater and the Dundee Diehards for keeping the memories alive. Gavin, you biscuit.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• zulu
• south africa
• isandlwana
• history
• british military

[Bussiahn]

Dear SmippeHyrst, your statistics are absolutely correct and while I can't go back and re-edit a video long deleted from my hard drive, you can add to it with a factual statement like yours. Calling it a shame (a painful feeling of humiliation) is not really the space I'd place it in, in fact, your ability to add to the conversation thanks to social media is more of a positive situation, don't you agree?

[nevafrass]

10:1 with guns they would of been slaughtered even faster

[SmippeHyrst]

Shame that at no point here do you mention the fact that the British were massively outnumbered by more than 10:1, which was probably the over-riding factor in this defeat rather than (as you put it) being 'tactically outsmarted'.

[beatlesandbeyond]

@THthefirst I imagine the Zulu wounded would be about 2,000. Any too serious to be cured were killed by their own people, but usually wounded figures would be 2 or 3 times those killed in action. Tchweyo was said to have been grieved by his losses, saying 'an assegai has been plunged in the belly of the Zulu nation'. Bear in mind that the Boers started this awful time in African history by invading Zulu lands, dragging Britain into their greed for land and slaves

[beatlesandbeyond]

@yoyoholck - foreign bastard then!

[FLSHBK1]

Nice work, Buss ~ I enjoyed that. For a 'first attempt', I consider it quite successful.

Still, I'd like to have command of those two squads @01:20 for abt an hour. They'd be marching sharper afterward.

[yoyoholck]

British bastards

[THthefirst]

@thomas271104 Ah, lies, damn lies, and statistics. You are wrong and/or misleading in the following ways:

1,300 was the number of british and natives killed, but there were also about 2000 Zulu dead plus another 1000 or so wounded in about three hours

of the % of those engaged, british losses were 98% at Isandlwana and against a supposedly vastly inferior army.

On the somme, your figure is total casualties over three months and about 20% of those engaged

plus there were machine guns!

[RhemaDigital]

Dear Clive,

With respects:

This sad effort of a film happened to be my first use of Final Cut ever. So as a novice at the time I reckon it was a pretty good attempt. I hope you are more encouraging to your peers and children when they embark on new ventures as is easy to kill dreams with careless words.

[clivetemple]

It's still an incredibly atmospheric place to visit. Which is more than can be said for this sad effort of a film.