Death of Lieutenant Frederick John Cokayne Frith from Zulu sniper fire during the Zungeni Mountain skirmish, depicted by Melton Prior in the Illustrated London News, 2 August 1879
This article continues Hog Farm's series around Price's Missouri Expedition in the American Civil War. Hoping to draw Union Army forces away from more important theaters and possible affect the 1864 US presidential election, Major General Sterling Price of the Confederate States Army led an offensive into Missouri on September 19, 1864. After a botched attack at the Battle of Pilot Knob, the strength of the Union defenses at Jefferson City led Price to abandon the main goals of his campaign. The Union forces pursued Price, and on 19 October 1864 he successfully attacked them at Lexington. The Confederates were defeated in another battle on 22 October and retreated.
Another in Dumelow's series on the Anglo-Zulu War, this article covers a small and inconclusive battle on 5 June 1879, when a force of British irregular horse discovered a group of 300 Zulus at the settlement of eZulaneni near Zungeni Mountain in Zululand. The horsemen charged towards and scattered the Zulus before burning the settlement, then withdrew after coming under fire. British reinforcements, including regular cavalry, arrived and attempted another attack. This was abandoned after the Zulus threatened to outflank the British. Following this action, the British paused to regroup before proceeding further into Zululand and decisively defeating the Zulu in the Battle of Ulundi on 4 July.
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Parade Celebrating the End of Military Action in the Kingdom of Poland on Tsaritsa Meadow in St Petersburg on 6 October 1831 by Grigory Chernetsov
This article continues Hog Farm's prolific work on the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. The Battle of Goodrich's Landing was fought in Louisiana on 29-30 June 30 1863. Confederate forces operating in northeastern Louisiana were attempting to aid the defenders of besieged Vicksburg, Mississippi, by raiding plantations and disrupting military encampments along the west bank of the Mississippi. The initial attack against Goodrich's Landing, Louisiana on 29 June was repelled by its African-American defenders. Their officers surrendered following this engagement and eyewitness accounts indicate that some of the black enlisted men were murdered by Confederate soldiers. The Confederates continued their raid the next day before pulling back.
The white supremist state of Rhodesia, which existed in Africa from 1965 to 1979, is perhaps one of the few countries to have been crippled by military conscription. The national service scheme enabled the creation of a large-enough military to deter a potential British assault to end Rhodesian independence. However, once the nationalist insurgency really got going in the mid-1970s the only way the Rhodesian Security Forces could maintain white rule was by calling up so many white men that it contributed to massive emigration from the country which in turn forced a transition to a majority government.
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Parade Celebrating the End of Military Action in the Kingdom of Poland on Tsaritsa Meadow in St Petersburg on 6 October 1831 by Grigory Chernetsov
