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Custer and the Sioux, Durnford and the Zulus: Parallels in the American and British Defeats at the Little Bighorn (1876) and Isandlwana (1879)
Custer and the Sioux Durnford and the Zulus Parallels in the American and British Defeats at the Little Bighorn and Isandlwana - 1876 - 1879 Author:Paul Williams In June 1876 General George A. Custer's 7th Cavalry was savagely defeated in the Montana wilderness during an unprovoked attempt to seize Sioux and Cheyenne hunting grounds. Three years later Lieutenant Colonel Anthony W. Durnford's troops encountered humiliating destruction at Isandlwana when Queen Victoria's redcoat troops mirrored Little Bigh... more »orn during an equally high-handed grab for Zulu lands in South Africa. Durnford and Custer had much in common, from modes of dress to the way they died. This book interweaves the stories of the two soldiers and their final battles, revealing how--to an astonishing degree--similar personalities, aims, tactics and weapons and an underestimation of so-called savages led to calamitous defeat.« less