Dingaan

British

/ ˈdɪŋɡɑːn /

noun

died 1840, Zulu chief (1828–40), who fought the Boer colonists in Natal

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But he had been dead a year or two, and his brother Dingaan was king when we arrived there.”

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I told you he had been dead some years, and his brother Dingaan was on the throne.

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But Dingaan was not his brother’s equal in ability or force of character, and he lost a great deal of the power which Chaka had acquired.”

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We could only have mustered a few hundreds to oppose Dingaan, if we had gone to war with him.

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Dingaan found that out in 1837, when a war broke out between him and the Boers.

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