Henry Pulleine, English colonel (born 1838)

Henry Pulleine

Commander in the British Army (1838–1879)

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Burmester Pulleine was an administrator and commander in the British Army in the Cape Frontier and Anglo-Zulu Wars. He is most notable as a commander of British forces at the disastrous Battle of Isandlwana in January 1879. Substantively a major, he held…