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This 4 page paper considers the history and the threats posed by the Zulu nation to the British between the years of 1835 – 1880. The paper starts wit the rule of Shaka and ends with the end of the 1879 Zulu war that was costly to both sides and saw Zululand broken into small chiefdoms. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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in the years between 1955 and 1880 the British perceived the Zulu as a threat, in many cases the threat may have been real even if the potential of that
threat was not realised. To consider the position of the British in 1835 we need to look back to 1824 and the meeting of Shaka, seen as a usurper
king in the Zulu nations, and Henry Francis Flynn (Morris, 1998, Bryant, 1964). Flynn was a colonial adventurer and had arrived at the Zulu homestead looking to negotiate trading rights.
While they did this they formed a small settlement in Port Natal, now known as Durban. Flynn aided in the recovery of Shaka from an assassination attempt and as a
reward for this Shaka gave the area of Port Natal and the surrounding area to the British Traders, granting them chieftainship over the area (Morris, 1998). The reaction of
the British was to return and raise the Union Jack and accepted the gift in the name of King George IV. The land was given for use, but this may
be seen as the initial point where the threat started as it was highly unlikely that Shaka meant to renounce sovereignty (Morris, 1998). Shaka died in 1828 and was
succeeded by his half brother Dingane who was involved in the assassination with another half brother who he also murdered (Taylor, 1996). Dingane was unhappy with the Port Natal
settlement, part of the problem was that the population of the area was growing quickly, but also the British were giving refuge to those who were fleeing Dingane himself. This
lead to a passion where there were armed and dangerous Zulu settlers living with the British settlers. This placed the British colony at risk due to the nature of the
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