Zulu Dawn! Lt. Col. Pulleine : His Lordship is of the cetain opinion that it's far too difficult an approach to be chosen by the Zulu command. Col. Durnford : Yes, well... difficulty never deterred a Zulu commander.
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Subject: General Consensus on Isandlwana Times Sun Mar 17, 2019 9:05 am
Hi all. I'm trying to animate the phases of the battle of Isandlwana. But I need a basic timeline in order to do so. Reading from various books and online, it's clear that the timeline is all over the place.
Is there a general consensus to the timeline? For example, what time did Durnford arrive at camp (10:30?) and what did he depart(11:30?).
My intention is a basic animation based upon the timelines established here, animated using accepted figures for the speed of horses, men walking etc.
Thanks Shelldon
Julian Whybra
Posts : 2587 Join date : 2011-09-12
Subject: Re: General Consensus on Isandlwana Times Sun Mar 17, 2019 9:27 am
10.30 and just after 11.30
SRB1965
Posts : 893 Join date : 2017-05-13 Age : 56 Location : Uttoxeter - the last place God made and he couldn't be bothered to finish it.....
Subject: Re: General Consensus on Isandlwana Times Sun Mar 17, 2019 9:29 am
Hi Shellon,
Eeeeekkk....times/timelines.....I'm not sure there will ever be a consensus.......but I look forward to seeing the results, it opens a whole can of worms with regard to watches and memory of traumatic events.
Julian did a good job of tying in events on the 22nd with each other (mainly on the return of Chelmsford) with reference to sunset, twilight dawn etc
Interestingly enough I am reading a bit about the Little Bighorn and there is the same problem there, despite that fact the 7th had an Officer, whose job it was to look at his watch and make official notes about march times etc. I spose he had more things on his mind later on 25/26th June 76 (I don't think he was with GAC but one of the other 'battalions')
thanks
Simon
Frank Allewell
Posts : 8019 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 74 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: General Consensus on Isandlwana Times Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:11 am
Sheldon while I fully agree that a timeline would be of benefit it must also be tied in to the paths of the various patrols etc. In other words dont believe all you read, its why most of the timelines wont work so my advice is reverse engineer, work out the paths then add a time line.
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