Fort Pearson was a fortification constructed by the British on the Natal side of the border with Zululand in the lead up to the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War. An earthen redoubt on a 300-foot high cliff overloo
View of Fort Pearson, in or before 1880.
A contemporary depiction of the fort showing the river cliffs
Garrison of Fort Pearson at Gatling gun practice, from a photograph
Graves in the Anglo-Zulu War–era cemetery
General Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, was a British Army officer who rose to prominence during the Anglo-Zulu War, when an expeditionary force under his command suffered a decisive
Frederic Thesiger by Lock & Whitfield, c. 1877
Lord Chelmsford sketched by another officer at the Battle of Ulundi
Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London