古德明英语军事小故事：祖鲁王国的末日 (中英对照)
古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。祖鲁王国的末日
in the 1860s, the discovery of gold and diamonds in southern africa made the british, who already had two colonies there, consider annexing the local state of zululand. in 1878, they magnified a small conflict with the zulu king cetshwayo, which ultimately escalated to cetshwayo being given an ultimatum to disband his army.when cetshwayo, as expected, ignored the ultimatum, the british invaded zululand with an army of 13000 men, expecting on easy victory. they were met with an army of 20000- 25000 zulu warriors, who, armed with spears against british guns, beat the british resoundingly on 22 january 1879. nearly 1200 redcoats were killed.sadly, this was to be the last victory of the zulu nation. the british returned in july, and the zulus were utterly routed.
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