How Indigenous Warriors Destroyed the World's Most Advanced Army #zulu #military #shorts

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]You know what your teachers didn't [music] tell you? On the morning of January 22, 1879, the British Empire was at the height of its power. The sun never set on it. The Maxim gun was years away, but the Martini-Henry rifle was the most advanced infantry weapon in the world. At a place called Isandlwana [music] in South Africa, 1,300 British soldiers waited with rifles and artillery. 20,000 Zulu warriors came over the hills.

[00:00:27]Spears, cowhide shields, short stabbing weapons called iklwa.

[00:00:32]Zulu commander Cetshwayo used a tactic called the horns of the buffalo.

[00:00:37]Two flanking columns wrapped around the British position. The center pinned them in place. By afternoon, 1,300 British soldiers were dead. The largest defeat the British Empire ever suffered against an indigenous army. Spears beat rifles.

[00:00:52][music] The British Empire never said it out loud, but every officer in London read [music] the report and changed how they fought every war that came after.

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