The Xhosa of southern Africa
Down south, The British Victorian Army had another resilient antagonist to its determined attempts to unite this part of Africa. Like the Zulus, the Xhosa did not like the idea of dissolving their territories to come under one foreign ruler. The Xhosa lived to the east, around the modern day South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province.
They waged a powerful rebellion that’s remembered as the Ninth Xhosa War of 1877 to 1879.
As with their fellow African natives, the Xhosa were unable to win the battle against the well-equipped and better trained foreign invader in open combat. The Warriors fled to the Amatola Mountains from where they adopted a guerrilla tactic against their strong adversary.
They would launch sporadic attacks and use the terrain to escape whenever they were targeted by the British. That way, the European invaders had little advantage without a target to attack.
They however managed to beat the locals when they finally built a series of defenses and an elaborate pursuit system.