Tugela

British  

/ tuːˈɡeɪlə /

noun

1. a river in E South Africa, rising in the Drakensberg where it forms the Tugela Falls , 856 m (2810 ft) high (highest waterfall in Africa), before flowing east to the Indian Ocean: scene of battles during the Zulu War (1879) and the Boer War (1899–1902). Length: about 500 km (312 miles)

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Example Sentences

Undeterred, he heads off to the Sani Pass, a steep mountain road covered in ice, and the Tugela Falls, which can be reached only by climbing up rickety iron ladders.

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2013

And so, in 1879, after presenting demands that no monarch would have met and that Cetshwayo did not understand, the British crossed the Tugela under arms.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is alone, and it is chilly within the crumbling mud walls of his hut at Msinga Top, a windswept outcrop high above the Tugela River in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province.

From Time Magazine Archive

"He's right, you know," says Dr. Tony Moll, who has driven us up the dirt track from the 350-bed hospital he heads in Tugela Ferry.

From Time Magazine Archive

As I did so I perceived Tugela abruptly issue from it, spring in to an erect position, and hurry off.

From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Phillips, Emma Watts