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English: Map showing movements during the Action at Sihayo's kraal Red: British forces advance from Rorke's Drift to camp at Bashee river ahead of atatck Orange: 1/24th during attack Yellow: 2/24th during the attack Green: Natal Native Contingent during attack Blue: Mounted contingent (Natal Volunteers and Natal Mounted Police) during the attack
 British advance
 Movement of 1/24th NNC
 Movement of 1/3rd NNC
Initial engagement (white circle)
 Movement of mounted units
 Movement of troops to burn Sihayo's Kraal (black circle)
The locations and movements are as per Smith, Keith (2014) Dead Was Everything: Studies in the Anglo-Zulu War, Frontline Books, p. 29 ISBN: 978-1-4738-3723-2. and Knight, Ian (1992) Zulu: Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift 22nd – 23rd January 1879, Windrow & Greene, p. 41 ISBN: 978-1-872004-23-5. . The underlying map, created by the British in 1879, mistakenly labels the location of the initial action as the location of the kraal itself
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current15:49, 10 January 2020Thumbnail for version as of 15:49, 10 January 2020616 × 439 (569 KB)Dumelowadd black dot for sihayo's kraal (per Keith Smith document http://www.rorkesdriftvc.com/potpourri/Sihayo.pdf)
20:26, 7 December 2019Thumbnail for version as of 20:26, 7 December 2019617 × 439 (543 KB)DumelowFile:Sihayos kraal action map.png cropped 29 % horizontally, 33 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode.
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