INCIDENT AT TREWIRGIE: FIRST SHOTS OF THE ZULU REBELLION 1906/PAUL THOMPSON

Abstract

Shortly after settling the conquered world, the imperial powers developed
a military concept for the occupation and, where they deemed it necessary, for the
pacification of their variegated possessions. A vast literature, embracing both the
theory and the practice of such operations, developed. The British, following the
fashionable ideas of the Victorian soldier-philosopher, Colonel C.E. Callwell,
adopted the concept of small wars, a term applied to a variety of scenarios; Callwell,
in fact, enumerated seven categories of potential enemies ranging from wellstructured
armies to guerrillas and irregular cavalry.