2 I unprotected,
beside the hill Isandhlwana.
Early the next morning, a
Zulu army took them unawares and slaughtered nearly every one of them,
in the greatest disaster to British arms since the Crimean War. However, a
British outpost warded off a Zulu attack at Rorke's Drift on the Natal
frontier, and, after reinforcements had arrived, the war gradually drew to
its inexorable conclusion, culminating in July with the destruction of the
Zulu capital at Ulundi. John Dunn, followed by several leading Zulu chiefs,
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