SKETCH OF THE KAFIR AND ZULU WARS Guadana to Isandhlwana
Author:	Parr (Captain Henry Hallam)
Subject:	ZULULAND, NATAL AND THE ZULU
Published:	London
Date:	1880
Price($):	$3,175.00
Price(£):	£1,810.00
Details:	283 pages, 8vo (180 x 125 mm), large folding map at the end (several tears repaired), 4 battle plans, sketch of the Zulu attack formation in the text, original decorated green cloth, new endpapers, presentation inscription from the author on the front free endpaper, contents good
Catalogue Number:	25
Book Number:	#5491/3
Description:	The presentation inscription reads, 'Major Aylmer Somerset R.B., from Major Parr, 1880.' The author was military secretary to Sir Bartle Frere.' The author gives an account of the military events on the Frontier and of the Zulu War. He was a member of the patrol led by Major Wilsone Black of the 24th which on February 4th, 1879 discovered the bodies of Melvill and Coghill at Fugitives' Drift, 'There are, not many hundred yards from the river side, two boulders within six feet of each other, near the rocky path. At these boulders they made their last stand and fought until overwhelmed. Here we found them lying side by side and buried them on the spot where they fought and fell so gallantly.' Page 227.
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