This powerful tribe lived in and around south africa until being defeated by the british after a series of bloody battles.

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The Zulu tribe lived in and around South Africa until being defeated by the British after a series of bloody battles.

On January 22, 1879, the British troops were defeated by the Zulu army in iSandlwana, South Africa. It was a bloody battle where the fierce Zulu warriors killed almost 1300 British soldiers. The British underestimated the Zulu tribe considered unprepared and indigenous but what didn't know was that in hand-to-hand combat, the were great boxers.

1.) irish.

2.) settlers could obtain cheap land nearby

3.) steam engine

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the answer is they believed george iii would never give them their freedom.