Southern Africa · Animated schematic fronts

Anglo-Zulu War

The British invasion of the Zulu Kingdom.

This war had no continuous front. The line is a schematic limit of advance and operations: it summarises campaigns and is not a trench line or an administrative border. The coloured areas are operational sides, not evidence of contiguous occupation; in-between frames are interpolated and closing edges are graphic. The British invaded Zululand in separate columns; the line connects their furthest positions.