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How Isandhlwana Camp May Have Looked In The Aftermath
Colin
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Hope you don�t mind the using of these images from the Boer War, to show how the camp at Isandhlwana may have looked in the morning of the 23rd January, as the only photographs we actually have are the later images of the few wagons on the nek.

If you multiply this devastation to the extent of the whole camp, you�ll understand what a horrifying and shocking sight that confronted Chelmsford�s men -









It is so easy to forget how it would have looked, before the burials of men, and the clearing of debris and removal of wagons.

I feel the showing of the immediate aftermath of a battle, brings home the reality, which reminds me of a scene in a film I watched -

When an officer is asked who the enemy is by his commanding officer, he replied - �I think the real enemy is war itself�

This I thought was an excellent answer


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Do you know which part of the Boer War that was?

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Colin
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Battle of Paardeberg for both images it appears, where a Boer laager was bombarded into surrender.

The wrecked camp gives a good idea of the destruction at Isandhlwana, minus of course the additional horror of the thousands of bodies.

This is another image of the same event -





Gives an alternative approach to imagining the Isandhlwana battlefield.
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