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Cessation for a time of operations from Natal—Composition of the column under Lieutenant-Colonel Evelyn Wood—Advance of this column from Utrecht to Bemba's Kop in the lately disputed territory—Repulse of a Zulu attacking force—Occupation by this column of Kambula hill on the old hunting road—Destruction of the Qulusi military kraal—Raising of volunteer corps by Commandant Schermbrucker and Colonel Weatherley—Defection of Ketshwayo's brother Hamu from the Zulu cause—Atrocious conduct of Umbelini—Disaster at the Intombi river, in which sixty-three Europeans lose their lives—Still greater disaster at Ndhlobane mountain, when ninety-five Europeans are killed—Repulse with heavy loss of a great Zulu army that attacks the camp at Kambula—Death of the marauder Umbelini—Arrival in Natal of troops from the Cape Colony, Saint Helena, and Mauritius, and landing of a naval brigade from her Majesty's ship Shah—Arrival of very large reinforcements from England—Relief of Etshowe—Construction of Fort Chelmsford—Arrangements for resuming the offensive—Death of Louis Napoleon, once prince imperial of France—Advance towards Ulundi of the divisions under Major-General Newdigate and Brigadier-General Wood, and their junction near their destination—Number of British troops in South Africa—Appointment of Sir Garnet Wolseley to the supreme command—His movements after arrival—Defeat of the Zulus at Ulundi by the army under Lord Chelmsford, and end of the war—Capture of Ketshwayo and his imprisonment in Capetown—Great reduction of the forces in the field—Division of Zululand into thirteen independent districts—Selection of chiefs over these districts