[PDF] Download ☆ Battle Story: Rorke's Drift 1879 | by ↠ Edmund Yorke

By Edmund Yorke | Comments: ( 767 ) | Date: ( Dec 06, 2019 )

The small garrison based at Rorke s Drift in South Africa is forever immortalised in British history as one of the Army s most glorious moments The garrison was defended by 139 British soldiers with c.300 African colonial troops under their command when, on 22 January 1879, they were attacked by a Zulu force of nearly 4,000 warriors Out numbered by nearly twenty to one,The small garrison based at Rorke s Drift in South Africa is forever immortalised in British history as one of the Army s most glorious moments The garrison was defended by 139 British soldiers with c.300 African colonial troops under their command when, on 22 January 1879, they were attacked by a Zulu force of nearly 4,000 warriors Out numbered by nearly twenty to one, the British soldiers constructed a makeshift defence and fought throughout the night Their tenacity and bravery ensured that the British retained the garrison and won the battle Their acts in the face of this overwhelming onslaught saw 11 Victoria Crosses being awarded to the British garrison the highest number ever awarded for a single engagement Rorke s Drift restored the British public s faith in the Army after the disaster of Isandlwana and the battle was famously portrayed in the film Zulu Battle Story Rorke s Drift explores the men and action at this most legendary of battles.

  • Title: Battle Story: Rorke's Drift 1879
  • Author: Edmund Yorke
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  • Page: 259
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  • Mike

    Every Englishman over twenty years of age with a TV has heard of Rorke’s Drift. Growing up barely a Sunday seemed to go by when Michael Caine was not smashing the Zulu army, defending an apparently pointless piece of land in the middle of the African nowhere.The battle itself was a do-or-die defence of a tiny garrison fought against the Zulu kingdom in 1879. The battle, in which a holding group left behind by the main British army, which had gone in search of the main Zulu military, found itse [...]

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  • Fredrick Danysh

    In 1879 the English went to war with the Zulus in Africa. After a large British force was destroyed by the Zulu, the action shifted to a small detachment of 100 British soldiers at Rorke's Drift who defended against around 4,000 Zulu warriors in fierce hand-to-hand fighting. Eleven British soldiers earned the Victtoria Cross, Britian's highest award for valor. The author examines some of the causes and results.

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  • Dean

    An excellent well written book. The book is full of quotes from the participants of the battle. This helps to give the book a powerful sense of what took place.

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