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Harry Green Art
Zulu Massacre at Blood River (Original)

Zulu Massacre at Blood River (Original) by Harry Green Art at The Illustration Art Gallery

Ref: GreenZulusLL (Click for LARGE picture)

Artist: Harry Green (biography)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 18" x 13" (450mm x 330mm)
Date: 1978

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Harry Green.

The Battle of Blood River is the name given for the battle fought between 470 Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius, and an estimated 15,000 - 21,000 Zulu attackers on the bank of the Ncome River on 16 December 1838, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Casualties amounted to three thousand of king Dingane's soldiers dead, including two Zulu princes competing with prince Mpande for the Zulu throne. Three Pioneers commando members were lightly wounded, including Pretorius himself.

In the sequel to the Battle of Blood River in January 1840, Prince Mpande finally defeated King Dingane in the Battle of Maqongqe, and was subsequently crowned as new king of amaZulu by his alliance partner Andries Pretorius. After these two battles, Dingane's prime minister and commander in both the Battle of Maqongqe and the Battle of Blood River, General Ndlela, was strangled to death by Dingane on account of high treason. General Ndlela had been the personal protector of Prince Mpande, who after the Battles of Blood River and Maqongqe, became king and founder of the Zulu dynasty.


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Harry Green Art

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