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Battle of Blood River

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Natal · South Africa

Estimated casualties

3.0Ksingle estimate · no range published

Decisive Boer victory over Zulu forces during the Great Trek into Natal, becoming a defining moment in Boer identity and South African history.

Belligerents2

Boer Republic
Zulu Kingdom

ON THE MAPZulu Kingdom

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Blood River (1838). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-blood-river-1838 · Sources & methodology