Film Zulu Quote:Lieutenant John Chard: The army doesn't like more than one disaster in a day. Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast..
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Good question Pascal. The Brits were in the Zulus' country so it would have been pointless holding prisoners for any length of time. I remember seeing pictures of Zulu warriors sitting on the ground after Ulundi, but I don't know how long they would have been detained for. Cetshwayo, Mehlokazulu and other induna were of course detained and interrogated but how much interest LC and the Brits would have had in ordinary Zulu warriors/farmers would have probably been very little.
After the end of each carnage of the hunting of the defeated zulus impis after each British victory ,there were inevitably Zulu warriors captured...
No prisoners in battle by the british army ???
Cheers
Pascal
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Subject: Re: Zulu warriors prisoners Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:49 am
I find it odd that in some books, it is said, for example:
it has been done such a quantity of zulu prisoners in this war.
This is what is usually found for other conflicts, even against the Indians of North America ...
Dave
Posts : 1604 Join date : 2009-09-21
Subject: Re: Zulu warriors prisoners Sat Oct 27, 2012 10:35 am
I guess there were loads of prisoners taken, dont think we will ever know what happen to them. I suspect most of the prisoners were wounded in one way or another.
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Subject: Re: Zulu warriors prisoners Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:50 am
Yes there are things weird with this war, compared to others, so cruel ...
littlehand
Posts : 7077 Join date : 2009-04-24 Age : 53 Location : Down South.
Subject: Re: Zulu warriors prisoners Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:18 pm
Subject: Re: Zulu warriors prisoners Today at 6:30 am Yes, but this guy was captured by women, otherwise he would have been killed ...
Pascal, I could introduce you to some women.......... I wouldn't want to be captured by women of any race, creed or nationality, whose husbands I had just killed...
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Subject: Re: Zulu warriors prisoners Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:07 am
If I tell them that I have the French nationality, she will make an exception ...
tasker224
Posts : 2101 Join date : 2010-07-30 Age : 55 Location : North London
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