Great Trek 1835-1846
… annihilation, and defeated the 'barbarous' Ndebele and Zulu warriors. Africans did indeed move temporarily into … Retief's fateful encounter with Dingane, chief of the Zulu, and the ensuing Battle of Blood River, the trekkers … of the Swazi, who, intent on seeking support against the Zulu, in July 1846 granted all the land bounded by the …