"Notes on the Zulu War, South Africa", manuscript diary written by a soldier of the 5th Field Company Royal Engineers, covering the period from the Company's departure from Chatham (2 December 1878) to arrival in Cape Town at the end of the month, and following events in Durban, Pietermaritzsburg, long marches, Greyston, Burrup's Inn, Mooi river, Sandspruit, Helpemakaar, Ekowe, Koppie Alleen, meeting Louis Napoleon the Prince Imperial, rumours and reports on the actions at Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, to the finals entries concerning the fiasco of a "friendly fire" incident in which a picquet of Royal Engineers under the command of John Chard was fired upon at Fort Newdigate on 6 June, 1879, 170pp. (numbered 1-167, pp.142-3 duplicated), brown ink on lined paper, with 7 small diagrams (encampment on the banks of the Mooi River at Tugela, 23 January; fort at Sandspruit, 27 January; temporary fort near Helpemakaar, 1 February; wagon encampment at Entombe, 31 March; fort at Ekowe [Eshowe] erected "under the superintendence of the Engineers", 7 April; "Woods camp" with 2 small forts protecting stores and a hospital marquee at "Conference Hill", 19 May; sketch of Koppie Alleen "or lonely hill", 23 May); albumen print photograph of two Zulu chiefs wearing Isicoco headbands and woman seated (captioned "Zulu caffirs", 115 x 90mm.) pasted inside lower cover; albumen print image of an ink sketch of Isandlwana and surrounds (95 x 175mm.) in the text, contemporary newspaper cuttings relating to the campaign pasted onto 18 pages, others tipped-in, a few loose, colour-print map of South Africa pasted inside upper cover, velveteen fabric over boards, worn, 8vo, [c.1879]
"Notes on the Zulu War, South Africa", manuscript diary written by a soldier of the 5th Field Company Royal Engineers, covering the period from the Company's departure from Chatham (2 December 1878) to arrival in Cape Town at the end of the month, and following events in Durban, Pietermaritzsburg, long marches, Greyston, Burrup's Inn, Mooi river, Sandspruit, Helpemakaar, Ekowe, Koppie Alleen, meeting Louis Napoleon the Prince Imperial, rumours and reports on the actions at Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, to the finals entries concerning the fiasco of a "friendly fire" incident in which a picquet of Royal Engineers under the command of John Chard was fired upon at Fort Newdigate on 6 June, 1879, 170pp. (numbered 1-167, pp.142-3 duplicated), brown ink on lined paper, with 7 small diagrams (encampment on the banks of the Mooi River at Tugela, 23 January; fort at Sandspruit, 27 January; temporary fort near Helpemakaar, 1 February; wagon encampment at Entombe, 31 March; fort at Ekowe [Eshowe] erected "under the superintendence of the Engineers", 7 April; "Woods camp" with 2 small forts protecting stores and a hospital marquee at "Conference Hill", 19 May; sketch of Koppie Alleen "or lonely hill", 23 May); albumen print photograph of two Zulu chiefs wearing Isicoco headbands and woman seated (captioned "Zulu caffirs", 115 x 90mm.) pasted inside lower cover; albumen print image of an ink sketch of Isandlwana and surrounds (95 x 175mm.) in the text, contemporary newspaper cuttings relating to the campaign pasted onto 18 pages, others tipped-in, a few loose, colour-print map of South Africa pasted inside upper cover, velveteen fabric over boards, worn, 8vo, [c.1879]
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