A large company of the 2nd / 3rd Natal Native Contingent ( NNC ) under Captain William Stevenson was ordered to remain at the post to strengthen the garrison.

At about 3. 30 pm, a mixed troop of about 100 Natal Native Horse ( NNH ) under Lieutenant Alfred Henderson arrived at the station after having retreated in good order from Isandlwana.

According to James Henry Reynolds only four defenders were killed in the hospital: one was a member of the Natal Native Contingent with a broken leg ; Sgt Maxfield and Private Jenkins who were ill with fever and refused to be moved ; and a Private Adams who also refused to move.

* Corporal Christian Ferdinand Schiess ; 2nd / 3rd Natal Native Contingent

By 1877, Sir Theophilus Shepstone, the British Secretary for Native Affairs in Natal, annexed the Transvaal Republic, for Britain using a special warrant.

In taking the side of Langalibalele against the Colonial regime in Natal and Theophilus Shepstone, the Secretary for Native Affairs, Colenso found himself even further estranged from colonial society in Natal.

In 1877, Sir Theophilus Shepstone, the British Secretary for Native Affairs in Natal, annexed the South African Republic ( Transvaal Republic ), for Britain using a special warrant.

In addition, there were approximately 2, 500 local African auxiliaries of the Natal Native Contingent many of which were exiled or refugee Zulu.

Once he had established the camp at Isandlwana, Chelmsford sent out two battalions of the Natal Native Contingent to scout ahead.

Pulleine also had around 500 men of the Natal Native Contingent and approximately 200 local mounted irregulars.

Around 10: 30am, Colonel Anthony Durnford arrived from Rorke's Drift with five troops of the Natal Native horse and a rocket battery.

* Natal Native Horse ( 5 troops ) – 5 officers, ca.

* 1st / 1st Natal Native Contingent ( 2 companies )-5 or 6 officers, ca.

* 2nd / 1st Natal Native Contingent-1 NCO

* Natal Native Pioneer Corps-1 officer, 10 men

* 1st / 3rd Natal Native Contingent ( 2 companies )-11 officers, ca.

* 2nd / 3rd Natal Native Contingent ( 2 companies )-9 officers, ca.

* Natal Native Contingent

There were also some 2, 200 Natal Natives formed into two battalions of the 2nd Regt., Natal Native Contingent and a company of Durnford's Natal Native Pioneer Corps.

Assigned to lead the No. 2 Column of Chelmsford's invasion army, Durnford commanded a mixed force of African troops including the Natal Native Horse and a detachment of the 1st Regiment Natal Native Contingent.

Upon receiving news of Isandhlwana from the Natal Contingent Ardenoff and that an army of 4000 Zulu Warriors are advancing their way, Lieutenant John Chard ( Stanley Baker ) of the Royal Engineers assumes command of the small British detachment, being senior by virtue of his commission date to Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead ( Michael Caine ), who, as an infantry officer, is rather put out to find himself subordinate to an engineer.

When Witt becomes drunk and starts demoralising the men with his dire predictions, causing the soldiers of the Natal Native Contingent to desert, Chard orders him to be locked in a supply room.

* Dickie Owen as Corporal Christian Schiess, a hospitalised Swiss corporal in the Natal Native Contingent

* Gert Van den Bergh as Lieutenant Josef Adendorff, an Afrikaner officer serving with the Natal Native Contingent and a survivor of the battle at Isandhlwana

The story of the black Natal Native Contingent troops ' desertion is true.

The uniforms of the Natal Native Contingent are inaccurate ; NNC troops were not issued with European-style clothes.

Commander of a large force of the Natal Native Contingent ( NNC ), Britain's African allies, Durnford is a humane officer who expresses concern for the lives and welfare of his African troops.

He was 22 years old, and a corporal in the Natal Native Contingent, South African Forces during the Zulu War.

Shortly after 08: 00 a small number of Zulus appeared near the knoll on the ridge, and a company of the Natal Native Contingent ( NNC ), under Lieutenant Hart, were sent up the spur after them.

Morris nevertheless references a large number of sources, including Stuart, and A. T. Bryant's extensive but uneven " Olden Times in Zululand and Natal ", which is based on four decades of exhaustive interviews of tribal sources.

The year in which the treaty with Moshesh was made several large parties of Boers recrossed the Drakensberg into the country north of the Orange, refusing to remain in Natal when it became a British colony.

He favoured large tracks of land that had been purchased from the ethnic Swazis in the eastern portion of the South African Republic, from the Zulus in northern Natal, and others, as well as largely uninhabited portions of the interior that had been settled by the Voortrekkers.

They were the first large group of squatters to populate the area, named after Sir Martin West, the first Lieutenant Governor of Natal.

The Goliath Heron specializes in relatively large fish, with an average prey weight range in Natal of and length of.

He helped found the Natal Indian Congress in 1894, and through this organisation, he moulded the Indian community of South Africa into a unified political force.

Leaving Buller in command in Natal, Roberts massed his main force near the Orange River and along the Western Railway behind Methuen's force at the Modder River, and prepared to make a wide outflanking move to relieve Kimberley.

:" Apart from whatever may be the general wish of the Zulu nation, it seems to me that the seizure of the two refugee women in British territory by an armed force crossing an unmistakable and well known boundary line, and carrying them off and murdering them with contemptuous disregard for the remonstrances of the Natal policemen, is itself an insult and a violation of British territory which cannot be passed over, and unless apologised and atoned for by compliance with the Lieutenant Governor ’ s demands, that the leaders of the murderous gangs shall be given up to justice, it will be necessary to send to the Zulu King an ultimatum which must put an end to pacific relations with our neighbours.

Popular mobilization to make the war declaration effective, with the despatching of Brazilian troops to Europe, continued, but a decision by the Brazilian Government to actually send troops to fight the enemy was only made in March 1943 when Vargas and the U. S President Franklin Delano Roosevelt met in the Conference of Natal, where the first official agreement was made to create an expeditionary force ( BEF ).

War was declared on 11 October and Natal invaded by a Boer force under General Piet Joubert.

As King Cetshwayo feared, the embarrassment of the defeat would force the policy makers in London, who to this point had not supported the war, to rally to the support of the pro-war contingent in the Natal government and commit whatever resources were needed to defeat the Zulus.

A company of the British Army's 24th Regiment of Foot, a Welsh regiment, is using the missionary station of Rorke's Drift in Natal as a supply depot and hospital for their invasion force across the border in Zululand.

Captain Smith ( according to his Dispatch of 25 May 1842 ), who had hitherto been at pains to avoid hostilities and in favour of conciliation, on receiving an " insolent " letter demanding that the force he commanded should immediately quit Natal, followed up the removal by armed men of a quantity of cattle belonging to the troops deemed it absolutely necessary that some steps should be taken in order to prevent a repetition of such outrages.

When war breaks out, Durnford, much to his chagrin, is ordered to remain in Natal and defend the border rather than accompany the invasion force.

General Sir Redvers Buller, VC, commander of the British forces in Natal, was attempting to relieve a British force besieged in Ladysmith.

Buller became head of the troops stationed at Aldershot in 1898 and was sent as commander of the Natal field force in 1899 on the outbreak of the Second Boer War, arriving at the end of October.

White had been advised to deploy his force far back, well clear of the area of northern Natal known as the " Natal Triangle ", a wedge of land lying between the two Boer republics.

Louis Botha commanded the Boer detachment which first raided Southern Natal, and then dug in north of the Tugela to hold off the relief force.

The force crossed the Tugela River from Natal into Zululand on 12 January 1879.

Also in 1900, Henry was sent to Natal, South Africa to assist in the reorganization of the local police force and establish a fingerprint bureau.

Colley gathered his force at Newcastle in Natal, dispatched an ultimatum to the Boers and, on its rejection, advanced towards the Transvaal border.

Shortly after the capture of Shashemene in May 1941, a mobile force, consisting of one company of the Natal Mounted Rifles and the 6th KAR, with light tanks and armoured cars, moved forward towards Dilla.