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Peter Ewart
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:31 pm |
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Chris
I only have the 1989 reprint but, as this is a facsimile reprint, the maps are the same as in the original 1881 edition. Inyezane, RD, Eshowe, Intombe (2), Ginghindlovu, Hlobane, Khambula, P/Imp (Ityotyosi), Ngome Forest (Cetshwayo's capture) & a larger folded one of Isandlwana (the Penrose & Anstey version - are you familar with the discussion/debate on this/these?) Plans/drawings of 2nd Div & Flying Column's camps, Etshowe Fort (plus drawings of sections in detail). Most lithographed by the Intelligence Dept at Horse Guards in 1881, of sketches and maps dated between Feb 1879 & March 1881.
Some of these have been reproduced in later works & one or two will be very familiar to you. Quality and method vary. I'm not an expert but some include contours in a standard OS way, others don't. Others here might be able to describe them more scientifically. I cannot see any note of the publisher which indicates any of the maps in the original are missing from the reprint.
If you are interested in maps of the AZW you'll certainly want copies of these, as also presumably of those in Huw M Jones: The Boiling Cauldron, (2006) which are reproduced in beautiful, glossy colour (Durnford's maps etc). For terrific maps of the "rebellion" of the 1880s & the Zulu Civil War, see Laband's superb Atlas of the Later Zulu Wars, 1883-88 (UNP, PMB 2001)
Peter
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Peter Ewart
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:18 pm |
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Chris
Huw M. Jones: The Boiling Cauldron - Utrecht District and the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879. (Shermershill Press, Bisley, Glos. 2006). Huw wrote the foreword to Harold's recent AZW bibliography.
There is a colour copy of Alleyne's Sep 1879 contoured map indicating the boundary between Seketwayo and Oham showing the beacons numbered III & IV. The original is in the UK's National Archives.
Three of Durnford's maps of May 1878, also reproduced in colour, which he produced while serving on the Boundary Commission. They show the disputed territory with different details in each. You'll find these in the KZN Archives.
Also reproduced, in b & w, is Durnford's "Sketch of Zululand" dated Sept 1878, compiled "from original sources and from personal observation & information." (UK National Archives).
Four topographical sketches by Major Fraser (Zungwini's Nek from the south; northern aspect of Hlobane mountain; view of Makati's Kop & Dumbe Mountain; and view of Ntseka Hill at Thinta's Drift) made in Sep 1881 also appear (in b&w). See the KZN Archives for these also).
I don't think any of the above have been published elsewhere. You are probbaly familiar already with Jeppe's "Map of the Transvaal & Surrounding Territories" (1877).
I know the list of works gets ever longer, Chris, but this one really is essential reading!
Peter
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Peter Ewart
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Chris
In my 1st edition of Coupland, the Isandlwana map (Fig 2, opposite p80) is captioned: Contours after Intelligence Dept Map, where heights are calculated from an assumed base height of 2000ft at Rorke's Drift ponts. Add approximately 1200ft for actual heights above sea-level. Is the reproduction in the modern reprint (I'm assuming you're referring to the reprint) not so captioned? So Coupland had this map based on the Anstey/Penrose version, although the delineations are obviously clearly different, and many features or wordings have been altered or added. Most of the contour lines and heights are, however, the same and clearly based on the Nov 1879 maps. In adding the shaded or dotted black mass - representing the Zulu attack - Coupland's map looks similar to the one Rupert Furneaux would later use in his 1963 work. RF omitted the contours and added pictorial sketches, but seems to have followed Coupland loosely, being probably the first author on Isandlwana after Coupland.
Elsewhere in Coupland (1st edition, at least) Fig 1 (opp. p64) shows the area in which all movements or actions took place between the 11th & 23rd Jan. I don't know any origin of this contoured map. It's not in the Narrative. Fig 3 (lower) opposite p104 is clearly based on the Intelligence Dept map of R/Drift in the Narrative but Fig 3 (Upper) looks as if it is simply inserted to clarify the whole R/D area. Fig 4 is a folded map opp. p128 in my version, showing a contoured map of Zululand in 1879. Let me know if the explanatory caption describing the contours is omitted from your version.
You'll see Coupland acknowledges the Narrative generally and a Mr GE Metcalfe for his help in drawing the maps. Are all the above deductions not possible from a glance at the reprint?
Peter
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