Ntshingwayo Khoza

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Ntshingwayo kaMahole Khoza (* 1809; † July 21, 1883 ) was a chief (inKosi) of the South African people of the Khoza and military leader in the Zulu War of 1879.

Life

Ntshingwayo Khoza at the time of the Zulu War

Ntshingwayo Khoza was one of the advisors of King Cetshwayo († 1884), although he had favored his opponent in the second civil war in Zululand (1856). For this reason, King Ntshingwayo had a certain distrust of Ntshingwayo throughout his life. In the Zulu War of 1879, Nshingwayo, who was almost 70 years old at the time, functioned as a kind of senior commander of the Zulu army, up to 40,000 strong . He was able to inflict a defeat on the British on January 22nd, 1879 in the Battle of Isandhlwana . The British contingent of over 1,300 soldiers was almost completely wiped out.

On March 28, there was a skirmish between a British division under Redvers Buller , who later became Commander in Chief in the Boer War , and the main army of Ntshingwayo Khozas near Hlobane . In this battle the Zulu were again victorious and the British lost almost a third of their deployed troops. The following day, Colonel Evelyn Wood and 2,000 men defeated Ntshingwayo Khoza's force of around 20,000 men at the Battle of Kambula .

In the battle of Ulundi on July 4, 1879, the English were finally able to defeat the Zulu for good. In mid-August, Ntshingwayo and his remaining troops surrendered to the British, who had already informed the British two weeks after the decisive battle that the Zulu kingdom no longer existed. In the third civil war in Zululand (1883-1884) Ntshingwayo stood on the side of the British re-installed king Cetshwayo in a reduced kingdom, who lost the decisive battle at oNdini against his opponents in July 1883 . Ntshingwayo was killed along with numerous other high dignitaries, some of whom had already held important positions under Cetshwayo's predecessors, during the chaotic escape that followed the defeat.

literature

  • John Laband : The A to Z of the Zulu Wars (= The A to Z Guide Series, No. 202). The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham-Toronto-Plymouth 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7631-6 , pp. 204f. (Keyword: NTSHINGWAYO kaMAHOLE ).