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Battle of Tugela

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South Africa

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Tugela (1838), part of the Boer-Zulu War. Zulu Kingdom defeated Boers. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents2

Zulu Kingdom
Boers

ON THE MAPZulu Kingdom

Conflict graph

PART OFVoortrekker–Zulu war

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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