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Company of Spears

by Allan Mallinson Book 8 in the Matthew Hervey series.

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Southern Africa, 1827. Seeking a new command, Hervey travels to the Cape Colony to reorganise local mounted forces and form a company capable of operating across long distances. He must combine regular cavalry methods with the experience of African soldiers and officers whose knowledge of terrain and regional politics is essential.

The expedition takes him beyond the colonial frontier towards the Umtata River and the expanding Zulu kingdom of Shaka. Diplomacy, migration and warfare overlap as Hervey encounters military systems unlike those of Europe or India. A mission of organisation becomes a battle for survival amid the upheavals associated with the Mfecane.

Historical Periods

British Conquest of the Cape Colony1806 CE Rise of the Zulu Kingdom and the Mfecanec. 1816–1828; wider upheaval continued into the 1830s

Genres

Exploration & Survival Fiction War Fiction

Historical people

Shaka1787–1828

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