Theophilus Shepstone
… escort of 110 officers and men of the Natal Volunteers, two field guns, and some 300 Natal levies. He hoped Cetshwayo … troops and resorted to arms, killing three colonials and two Basotho. Panic-stricken, the young Carbineers fled and … soldiers and volunteers hunted down and shot more than two hundred people, mainly the old, and women with children …