GREAT VICTORY BY COLONEL WOOD
Colonel Wood has achieved a brilliant victory in his campaign. The Zulus turned out four thousand cattle on the sidea of mountains, behind which 35,000 warriors were secreted. Two regiments of Dragoons started after the cattle, and were just returning in safety when the enemy attacked and slaughtered all the English except one man, who alarmed the camp. Hasty defences were erected when the storm burst.
The whole . Zulu force attacked the camp eh masse. •
The Gatling guns were used moßt effectively sweeping the whole division. The breech-loading rifles also told terribly. .
The attacks were repeated, but all failed.
Four thousand were killed and wounded.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 696, 15 May 1879, Page 2
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