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@GPhillips10
I avoid being cotroversial so I excel at getting no engagement 👊🏼 Now just taking life one day at a time. I also love cricket and rugby.
Katılım Eylül 2009
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Anyone else watching Artemis II with me? Say hi as this is too much excitement for me to deal with alone! @NASAArtemis #moon #ArtemisII #Space
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@JanaSwart1 @adidasZA I ordered and paid for mine 2 weeks ago and I've heard nothing since. @BafanaBafana official store robbing me blind 😭
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@mattr165 @jfjoubert @thyphoidjack @grok The British viewed the Zulus as a threat to their ambitions of creating a unified, British-ruled South African Confederation. So, they issued King Cetswayo a totally unrealistic and ridiculous untimatum and then invaded.
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@GPhillips10 @jfjoubert @thyphoidjack @grok I have no idea about any of this - explain it to me like I’m 10 year old.
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On this day, 29th March 1879. 2,000 British and colonial troops faced 20,000 Zulus at Kambula. Two months earlier, those same Zulu regiments had annihilated a British column at Isandlwana. They came to Kambula expecting the same.
They were wrong.
One thousand three hundred British soldiers had been killed at Isandlwana in a single afternoon. It was one of the greatest defeats the British Army had suffered in the Victorian era. The shock reverberated all the way to London.
Kambula was meant to finish the job.
The Zulu impi numbered twenty thousand men — regiments that had fought at Isandlwana, veterans who had broken British lines before. The day before, at Hlobane, they had routed Colonel Evelyn Wood's mounted force and sent them fleeing. Now they wheeled south toward the British camp on the ridge at Kambula, expecting to sweep it away.
Wood knew they were coming. He had two thousand and sixty-eight men. He had four seven-pounder guns, a wagon laager locked tight around the ridge, a stone redoubt, and Martini-Henry rifles. And he had drilled his men to reach their battle positions in under two minutes. He even insisted they eat a meal before the attack.
At one thirty in the afternoon, Lieutenant-Colonel Redvers Buller rode out with his mounted troops toward the massed Zulu right horn — twenty thousand men visible on the plain. They fired a volley and wheeled their horses and galloped back toward the camp, closely followed by a wave of eleven thousand Zulus who came at the embankment shouting: "We're the boys from Isandlwana!"
The moment the horsemen cleared the line of fire, the British infantry opened up. The seven-pounders fired shell, then canister. The Martini-Henry rifles fired volley after volley. The Zulus came in great waves for five hours — wave after wave, each one broken by concentrated fire.
By evening, it was over. British casualties: eighteen killed, sixty-five wounded. Zulu dead: approximately two thousand.
Their commander tried to pull the regiments back to Ulundi. Many simply walked home. The shock of Kambula had broken something in the Zulu army that never fully recovered.
It was the turning point of the Anglo-Zulu War. Three months later, at Ulundi, the Zulu kingdom fell.
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MEN ONLY:
what’s one habit that changed your body the most?
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@jfjoubert @thyphoidjack Also worth noting that the Zulu Kingdom had no desire to enter into any conflict until The British incited it by invading their lands, unprovoked.
An incredible culture based in a paradise, almost totally wiped out and changed irreversibly.
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Comparison with Boer War
🔴 Isandlwana (1879): ~1,300+ killed in one battle
🔴 Worst Boer War battle (Spion Kop, 1900): ~243 killed
That’s over 5 times more deaths in a single day at Isandlwana than the worst British losses in any single Boer War battle.
I cite my source: ChatGtp
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@ShellsPemBroke I don't know the context and I won't try guessing it but loss of any kind is the hardest thing. It hurts always, especially in the most unexpected moments but you'll keep going and there will also be beautiful moments again. Rooting for you 💪
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My kid doesn’t have his dad anymore. He’s never gonna send me a movie recommendation or the song he’s working on again. He’s never gonna tell me about his new project or the new board game he’s obsessed with.
And this fucking sucks.
I need to say it out loud ❤️
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Anyone had a great Gym Fitness Transformation in the last few years?
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Not sure why everyone is panicking about Damian Willemse at wing.
If you can play fullback, you can play wing.
Simple.
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Football Friday!!! 🥺🇿🇦
Everyone should be wearing a Bafana jersey today ⚽️
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@libriscent This!!!! But I'm a dreamer and dreams exist only to be destroyed 😔
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That sick feeling when you realize your intuition was right all along and you ignored it because you wanted to believe that the person wouldn't do that to you.
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