Isandhlwanaor Isandula

Isandhlwana, or Isandula. 110 miles N. by W. of Durban, is on the left bank of the Buffalo river, in Natal. Here on January 22nd, 1879, 4 companies of the 24th and some native troops, under Colonels Durnford and Pulleine, were nearly annihilated by 18,000 Zulus, the British loss being ovrer 800, that of the Zulus 2,000.