Theophilus Shepstone
… quite certain, that if we are forced into hostilities, we cannot stop short of breaking down the Zulu power, which … a corridor to the labour in Tongaland and Mozambique. In June 1878, the boundary commissioners handed their carefully … peace overtures, but his envoys were turned away on 27 June, and the British army marched on to Ulundi. On 4 July, …