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The war was rooted in Britain’s desire to unite the Boer republics, the independent states, and all of its South African colonies under a single British confederation, marking a defining moment in the region’s colonial history. Great Britain dispatched approximately 15,000 military forces to conquer the Zulus, which resulted in bloody encounters, including the Battle of Isandlwana and the Battle of Rorke’s Drift. The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 saw the British Empire invade the independent Zulu kingdom in South Africa, leading to the victory of the former.
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