The War Between Great Britain and the Zulu Kingdom

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🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Great Britain’s efforts to control southern Africa eventually led to war with the Zulu Kingdom. A brutal series of engagements claimed the lives of many British and Zulu soldiers, but Britain’s portrayal of events minimized poor leadership decisions.

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0:42.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Frye, and I'm Tracy V. Wilton.
0:47.7	Uh, it is time for another lots of problematic things happen under Queen Victoria's rule episode.
0:55.7	Yeah, you can have a, your favorite problematic tag for your favorite Queen Victoria.
1:01.7	Yes, all the problematic things.
1:03.7	Yes, I, um, I always tried to differentiate and say that the things I love about Queen Victoria are like the private side of her.
1:11.7	And the things she shared with her family, but I really struggle with so much of her reign,
1:16.7	because Britain was doing some really awful things during that time.
1:20.7	So this is another story of Britain's quest to colonize and conquer the world, believing themselves to be superior to the people who already lived in the places that they were moving into.
1:30.7	Uh, in this case, it is about one particular aspect of Britain's efforts in southern Africa, which culminated in a war with the Zulu Kingdom.
1:39.7	Just in the interest of expectations management, we are not going to cover the entirety of this conflict because it reaches almost into the 20th century.
1:46.7	We are focusing on the first segment on it, which led to what most historians would consider the end of the Zulu Kingdom.
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