"The South African Military History Society - The Zulu Military Organization and the Challenge of 1879"

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“Shaka Zulu's brutality was exaggerated, says new book" by Rory Carroll in The Guardian .”

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“Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again.”

“Up! children of Zulu, your day has come. Up! And destroy them all.”

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