Anglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… The Zulu had not intended to attack then, as it was a new moon and it was considered unwise to fight on a 'dark … of Shepstone’s 'native policy', Sir Garnet Wolseley, the new British commander in Natal, divided the kingdom into … on Zululand's western margin, which they called The New Republic, with its 'capital' at Vryheid. When the …