Henry Bartle Frere
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Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet, was a British colonial administrator. He had a successful career in India, rising to become Governor of Bombay. However, as High Commissioner for Southern A
1881 portrait by George Reid
Henry Bartle Frere, by 'Spy' in Vanity Fair, 1873
Southern Africa in 1878, on the eve of the confederation wars, Cape Colony Transvaal Orange Free State
Pro-imperialist cartoon showing Sir Bartle Frere vanquishing the "negrophilist" liberals of the Cape government, represented by MP Saul Solomon.
Battle of Isandlwana
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The Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was the second major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom – the Battle of Nyezane having been fought and won earl
Henry Bartle Frere
…to invade Zululand, and so the Anglo-Zulu War began. On 11 January 1879, British troops crossed the Tugela River; fourteen days later the disaster of Isandlwana was reported, and that was enough for the House of Commons to demand that Frere be recalled. Beaconsfield supported him, however, and in a strange…
The Last Stand at Isandlwana by Charles Edwin Fripp
Lord Chelmsford
Cetshwayo, c. 1875
Zulu warriors, 1882