re: meh

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Zulu and the Boer War

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Zulu war was with Zulu's

Boer war was with the Dutch

History seems to be coming full circle on the Zulu war

Back story if my memory is working ...

DeBeer's controlled the world diamond market and used armies around the world to protect it. They were a privately held company with no standing army. They were not even based in Britain or the UK. When Africa was wanting self rule - basically countries based on resources controlled by a dictator and individual countries were asserting power.

Zulu's were basically using the same spears and shields made out of animal skin (way outdated weapons of war) to fight the British Army who had guns and artillery. I think there were 3 Zulu War's and the first was utter defeat for the British as tribal Zulu's over ran and killed the British. Eventually the British won but it took time and resources with no financial support from DeBeer's.

The utter defeat damaged the reputation of the British Army going forward, along with financial ruin. To add insult to injury, DeBeer's did not move to HQ in the UK. Lesson should have been learned then about not using a government to protect a corporation.