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Cetshwayo kaMpande
Cetshwayo kaMpande was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1873 to 1884 and its Commander in Chief during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. His name has been rendered as Cetywayo or Cetshwayo. Cetshwayo consistently opposed the war and sought fruitlessly to make peace with the British and was defeated and exiled following the Zulu defeat in the war. He was later allowed to return to Zululand, where he die…
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politics · King of the Zulu Kingdom (1826–1884) · monarch · also Cetshwayo kaMpande, Cetshwayo, kaMpande
Born 1 January 1826 · Died 8 February 1884 · Q380403
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2016· 1 entry
The King Cetshwayo District Municipality was named after Cetshwayo
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1884· 1 entry
Died 1884-02-08.
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1883· 1 entry
The British government tried to restore Cetshwayo to rule at least part of his previous territory, but the attempt failed
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1879· 1 entry
Though he continually sought to make peace after the Battle of Isandlwana, the first engagement of the war
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1878· 1 entry
Sir Henry Bartle Frere, British High Commissioner for the Cape Colony, sought to confederate the colony the same way Canada had been and felt that this could not be done while there was a powerful Zulu state bordering it
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1865· 1 entry
Umthonga again fled across the border, apparently making Cetshwayo believe that Umthonga would organize help from the Boers against him, the same way his father had overthrown his predecessor, Dingane
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1856· 1 entry
Cetshwayo defeated and killed in battle his younger brother Mbuyazi, Mpande's favourite, at the Battle of Ndondakusuka
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1826· 2 entries
The son of future Zulu king Mpande and Queen Ngqumbazi
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Born 1826-01-01.
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