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World Service,01 Apr 1999,28 mins

The Assegai and the Redcoats

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A look at the legacy of the 1879 Battle of Isandlwana between British Red Coats and Zulu warriors when the colonial power's advance across Southern African was temporarily halted by a part-time force of peasant farmers armed only with assegai (spears).

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