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PostSubject: Re: The ammunition question   The ammunition question - Page 3 EmptyMon Jul 21, 2014 1:51 pm

Chard1879 wrote:
And it's pure speculation that SD had memory problems in later life.

Yes, but it's also true that aspects of his two accounts contradicted many others and even himself to little discernible purpose. It is also a fact that eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable to begin with. It is also a fact that people in general tend to show significant memory deterioration as they age. So, raising the POSSIBILITY that he mistaken in some details decades later is an entirely reasonable line of inquiry.
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xhosa2000 wrote:
But again i say LC did not take the
Ammunition, now i think that beyond
' fishy ' if he was going to confront
the main Zulu Army, what was he
going to fight with?....

Oh, this is even LESS credible than most things Frere said and did. He was clearly willing to say whatever was necessary to save his skin after the disaster. Mostly this is an attempt to pin the tail on a donkey named Durnford. If you don't credit that (and I certainly don't) then why would you take seriously Frere's contention that Chelmsford EXPECTED a 15-20K Zulu army? Either LC didn't expect it or he couldn't do simple maths. What motive had he to get himself and his entire command potentially wiped out?
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i offered the above without prejudice!
merely to point out 1. Chelmsford's stated intention to confront
the whole of the Zulu Army at the first opportunity, and 2, the
bottom line ties in with the ammunition thread! again i have to
say to you STOP trying to second guess my intentions, who said
he was trying to get himself and his entire command wiped out!
stop being so literal.....i'm merely adding to the mix in order for
people to think and then question this campaign more closely!!

on the S-D thread re the photograph, stop going on.... this is not a
COMPETITION!!! just post the thing. s..t or get off the pot. last thing
6pdr. Step off me! i'm really not as interested as you seem to be!.
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OK, so I have a question. For those (colonials etc...) not seeking Martini Henry ammo (because they were armed with carbines or what have you) would the battalion ammunition wagons have any useful rounds?

And, if they did have bullets useful for rifles other than the MH, would those rounds even be stored in British Army mahogony/teak boxes?
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I think this has been asked before, and the answer was no, the British wagons contain MH rounds only. Durfords wagons would have held their own supplies. Happy to be corrected.

But no doubt during the course of the Battle, colonials may have picked up the odd MH rifle that had been lost to a dead soldier.
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PostSubject: Re: The ammunition question   The ammunition question - Page 3 EmptyTue Jul 22, 2014 11:13 am

I posted that old footage for those not familiar with a
close view of an ammunition box! please look carefully
at the box, the Sandhurst geezer tells us that it came
straight off the battlefield! and then proceeded to show
the difficulty of accessing the contents...dramatically
pointing out the ' bayonet ' marks?.

And now consider where these boxes were to be found,
certainly not on the firing line! so then please consider
the range of tools readily available to hand in camp!
the list becomes very long, forgetting the pioneers..
there were. pickaxes, axes, jemmys, crowbars, steel
levering bars?, rifle butts, steel shod ammunition boots.
and of course the ' screwdrivers '.

the ' historian ' makes a big deal about the bayonet thrust
marks ( incidentaly from the wrong side ) and goes on to
show that by removing ONE screw the sliding panel can
be easily accessed! again a big deal is made out of the
QM's role in this battle, stressing the professionalism of
that breed of men, accounting for every round and indeed
every spent cartridge case...

Now note the various timings! all was good as long as the front
line held and Durnford was doing his thing out on the right,
springbok contends that there was no sudden collapse
( despite the the blame shifted immediately to the poor
maligned NNC..) NO! this was an orderly withdrawal back onto
the camp, which must be why so many of the lasts stands held
out as long as they did because they had ammunition......

The Zulu were paused and laid down under the intense fire of
the Martinis, we know after the bravest of rallying calls the Zulu
rose up and came on with even more fanatical determination and
bravery...what was the high command doing at this point, i'm
thinking of Pulleine with Melvill as his eyes and ears..they were
watching the battle unfold, they had noted the way the Zulu
were coming on! ( unlike any thing they had seen all their time in
Africa! ) and at some point sounded the recall! ( once, twice?.
What did they actually see to make that decision? they saw up
to fifteen thousand highly disciplined and motivated troops ( yes
they were troop's!) advancing and it seemed like nothing could stop
them! if they could see that! who else could..and how many were
actual effective's in camp, how many actual fighting men, my own
estimate is a very generous 750 to 800..i cannot believe the QM's
were not acutely aware of the situation at this time as those with
no business with the actual fighting were not so quietly making
good their preparations for flight. i sincerely believe that there was
No Ammunition shortage..but the 24th and colonials were
simply ground down by overwhelming force!.. but the british could
not stomach the fact that an indigenous force had out general'd
and outfought them! so the ' spin began ' ammunition shortage at
Isandhlwana? err no! there was a tactic and ultimately troop
shortage. this is of course just my own opinion! i wont be about
to change it any time soon..

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"springbok contends that there was no sudden collapse
( despite the the blame shifted immediately to the poor
maligned NNC..) "
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Julian Cetshwayo
A couple of pages back we were discussing uniforms and numbers.
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PostSubject: Re: The ammunition question   The ammunition question - Page 3 EmptyTue Jul 22, 2014 2:27 pm

littlehand wrote:
I think this has been asked before, and the answer was no, the British wagons contain MH rounds only. Durfords wagons would have held their own supplies.

Well the reason I ask is that much is made of the couriers (for lack of a better word) that Durnford dispatched back to secure more ammunition were supposed to have been refused rounds at the battalion wagons, but it wasn't there for them anyway as their men were armed with Sniders or what have you...

In other words, much has been made of the refusal (this is separate from Smith-Dorrien's story now,) to issue ammunition for the men in the donga but without knowledge of where their wagon was located (for it arrived late to the battlefield,) that was pretty much academic anyway?


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This Ulundi, but it perfectly illustrates how the Zulu
' Came On ' in battle..

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6pdr wrote:
littlehand wrote:
I think this has been asked before, and the answer was no, the British wagons contain MH rounds only. Durfords wagons would have held their own supplies.

Well the reason I ask is that much is made of the couriers (for lack of a better word) that Durnford dispatched back to secure more information were supposed to have been refused rounds at the battalion wagons, but it wasn't there for them anyway as their men were armed with Sniders or what have you...

In other words, much has been made of the refusal (this is separate from Smith-Dorrien's story now,) to issue ammunition for the men in the donga but without knowledge of where their wagon was located (for it arrived late to the battlefield,) that was pretty much academic anyway?

I'm not sure Durnfords troops were replenished, can't think of his name of hand, but one of the Coloinals rode in, to find the ammuntion boxes had not been opened. But in-hind sight the Coloinals still could have supplied MH ammo to the firing lines albeit for British, quicker being on horseback.
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Springbok, came across this!
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springbok9 wrote:
Julian Cetshwayo
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Thanks Springbok.

Aren't these lists the ones compiled by Fynney?
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Hi Springy
These lists you posted are also in ' The Zulu Army And Zulu Headmen ' . Inside the front cover it states ' Compiled from Information obtained from the most reliable sources ' ; and Published ' By Direction Of The Lieut - Gen Commanding ' -
For the Information Of Those Under His Command ; Which I'm certain was compiled with help from Fynney , it's also as it states , the book handed to the Column commanders before the invasion , from memory these were distributed in Dec 78 ? .
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PostSubject: Re: The ammunition question   The ammunition question - Page 3 EmptyWed Jul 23, 2014 8:08 am

These are the original lists drawn up by I believe Fynney. There were donated to the archives by C Faye who was head of Natal Bantu Affairs Department.
I know they have been incorporated into all sorts of books but on occasion its nice to see the original documents. In terms of research its always better to go back to the source documents rather than relying on authors interpretations.

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Hi Springy
Yes agreed , it's always best to get your hands on the Originals , they would take on a persona of their own , due to my lack of a better word !  No . It seems it's also the Originals which are indeed in the book I mentioned  Salute You need to study mo 
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Hi Les
yeah I don't think there are many left that actually buy the story of the screwdrivers.

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Springy you never know !  Sad Sad Rolling Eyes  Joker 
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Hiya you two,  Salute  Frank i hope not, but i will bang
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Could be wrong, but I don't recall reading any accounts from any of the survivors or anyone else for that matter, that was there or heard stories after the event, that mentions lack of screwdrivers.?

But if there wasn't a lack of screwdrivers why wasn't ammuntion flowing faster, why were comments made regarding ammuntion boxes not opened? When they arrived at the camp.
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