• Battle of Inyezane, British victory during the early phase of the Anglo-Zulu war. In December 1878, the British invasion force assembled on the Zulu borders...
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    Henry Parnell, 5th Baron Congleton (category Alumni of New College, Oxford)
    general in the British Army and took part in the Crimean War and the Battle of Inyezane during the Anglo-Zulu War. Parnell was educated at Eton College, and...
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    bank of the Neyzane (now Inyezane) on the evening of 1 April. The laager was sited on a 300 ft (91 m) ridge running roughly west–east. West of the ridge...
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  • Charles Pearson (British Army officer) (category Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    the British suffered a heavy defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana, to the south-east at Battle of Inyezane, No. 1 Column had repelled a Zulu advance, this...
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    Warren Richard Colvin Wynne (category British Army personnel of the Anglo-Zulu War)
    quantity of stores, was completed on the 17th. The column then advanced further into Zululand. Wynne was in command of the right in Battle of Inyezane on 22...
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    to bar their way. The British were camped about 4 mi (6.4 km) south of the Inyezane River, which they had crossed the previous day, beneath a steep ridge...
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    HMS Active (1869) (category Corvettes of the Royal Navy)
    January 1879. On 22 January they saw action in the Battle of Inyezane, driving off an attacking force of Zulus with rockets, Martini-Henry rifles and the...
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    Johan Wilhelm Colenbrander (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    War he saw action at the 22 January Battle of Inyezane and the 2 April Battle of Gingindlovu. At the latter battle he met John Robert Dunn, a British settler...
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    ambush at the Inyezane River, and advanced as far as the deserted missionary station of Eshowe, which he set about fortifying. On learning of the disaster...
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