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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP27 Aug 2022 9:19 p.m. PST

"The Zulu Kingdom remains one of the most fascinating, yet under appreciated kingdom's in history. In the kingdoms brief, approximately 80-year existence, the Zulus came to dominate and expand their lands in KwaZulu-Natal.

Thanks to the reforms of The Zulu Kingdom's first monarch, Shaka Zulu, they would rise to challenge the sole superpower of the age the British Empire and the two states would forever become intertwined.

The illegitimate son of a chieftain, Shaka Zulu, would turn the small Zulu tribe into the preeminent South African power in the 1800s, with a series of reforms to the army and by waging all-out bloody warfare. But he also understood the essential value of food and mobility in war, and he would use it take KwaZulu-Natal by storm…"


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Col Durnford Supporting Member of TMP28 Aug 2022 1:29 p.m. PST

Good read. Thanks for posting it.

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP28 Aug 2022 4:05 p.m. PST

A votre service mon ami…


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Berzerker7328 Aug 2022 5:03 p.m. PST

Very interesting read!

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP29 Aug 2022 3:45 p.m. PST

Glad you like it too…


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barcah200114 Sep 2022 10:21 a.m. PST

Thanks Armand. Great material as always!i

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP14 Sep 2022 4:10 p.m. PST

A votre service mon ami….


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