Short-lived Boer republic in Natal, annexed by Britain four years after its founding.
The Natalia Republic was annexed by Britain and proclaimed the Colony of Natal on 4 May 1843, just four years after the Voortrekkers established it in 1839; most Boers then trekked north-west to found the Orange Free State and Transvaal.
Sets the Natal Boer republic within the Voortrekker movement and British annexation.
Eldredge's Cambridge study of how Shaka's Zulu kingdom rose over the Mthethwa and Ndwandwe, the formative era behind the Anglo-Zulu conflict Morris narrates.