%0 Journal Article %T INCIDENT AT TREWIRGIE: FIRST SHOTS OF THE ZULU REBELLION 1906/PAUL THOMPSON %A Paul Thompson %J Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies %D 2011 %I Stellenbosch University %R 10.5787/34-1-19 %X Shortly after settling the conquered world, the imperial powers developed a military concept for the occupation and, where they deemed it necessary, for the pacification of their variegated possessions. A vast literature, embracing both the theory and the practice of such operations, developed. The British, following the fashionable ideas of the Victorian soldier-philosopher, Colonel C.E. Callwell, adopted the concept of small wars, a term applied to a variety of scenarios; Callwell, in fact, enumerated seven categories of potential enemies ranging from wellstructured armies to guerrillas and irregular cavalry. %U http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/19