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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Keith Smith

The Wedding Feast War- The Final Tragedy of the Xhosa People

Published: Privately Printed, Australia, 2010

Edition: Firstb Edition ISBN 978 0 9805647 4 7

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The Wedding Feast War-The Final Tragedy of the Xhosa People by Keith Smith, and privately printed.

This book serves as a 'prequel' to the Angl-Zulu War, which followed in 1879, some units and their officers fighting in both wars. Prominent among them was the 1st Battalion of the 24th(2nd Warwickshire) Regiment under its commanding officer Colonel Richard Thomas Glyn. His officers' names may also be familiar, among them Major Henry Burmeister Pulleine, Captain Russell Upcher, Lieutenant Teignmouth Melvill and Lieutenant Nevill Coghill. Here we see these officres, many of whom would fall later at Isandlwana, in a new light.

The 90th Regiment also arrived in South Africa during the same time, bringing with it another Zulu War luminary, Colonel Evelyn Wood V.C. Here too was to be found Brevet Major Redvers Buller, 60th Regiment(The King's Royal Rifle Corps) soon to become the formidable warrior leading his beloved Frontier Light Horse.

  • Jacket Condition: Fine
  • Binding Condition: Fine
  • Overall Condition: Fine
  • Size: 16 X 24cm
  • Sold By: Quathlamba Winds Books
  • Contact Person: Ian & Yvonne Halford
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 01743 361772
  • Preferred Payment Methods: Paypal-Cheques-Direct Transfer to UK Bank.
  • Trade Associations: SABDA


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