2-636-645 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Thus Did A Hundred Men Keep Three Thousand Savages At Bay', c1908, (c1920). In 1877, Theophilus Shepstone (1817-1893) a British South African statesman was responsible for the annexation of the Transvaal to Britain. One of the reasons given for the annexation was to prevent the Zulu’s attacking the Boers, instead the Zulu’s attacked Natal and later the British Army. From Our Empire Story, by H. E. Marshall [Thomas Nelson And Sons, London, c1920]