ISANDHLWANA, an isolated hill in Zululand, 8m. S.E. of Rorke's Drift across the Tugela river, and Io5m. N. by W. of Durban. On Jan. 22, 1879, a British force encamped at the foot of the hill was attacked by about io,000 Zulus, the flower of Cetewayo's army, and destroyed. Of eight hundred Europeans engaged about forty escaped (see ZULULAND: History).