Rorke's

The defense of Rorke's Drift in 1879 by a small company of British soldiers against a force of Zulus 40 times greater than their own resulted in the award of more Victoria Crosses than for any other single action in British martial history.

Franz-Stefan Gady: Gone with the Wind: Gone in the Head Franz-Stefan Gady 2011

The defense of Rorke's Drift in 1879 by a small company of British soldiers against a force of Zulus 40 times greater than their own resulted in the award of more Victoria Crosses than for any other single action in British martial history.

Franz-Stefan Gady: Gone with the Wind: Gone in the Head Franz-Stefan Gady 2011

The defense of Rorke's Drift in 1879 by a small company of British soldiers against a force of Zulus 40 times greater than their own resulted in the award of more Victoria Crosses than for any other single action in British martial history.

Franz-Stefan Gady: Gone with the Wind: Gone in the Head Franz-Stefan Gady 2011

The defense of Rorke's Drift in 1879 by a small company of British soldiers against a force of Zulus 40 times greater than their own resulted in the award of more Victoria Crosses than for any other single action in British martial history.

Franz-Stefan Gady: Gone with the Wind: Gone in the Head Franz-Stefan Gady 2011

I couldn't tell how many others had won clear (about fifty, in fact, against a thousand who fell under the assegais), but I could guess that the next stop along the line for Ketshwayo's merry men would be Rorke's Drift, eight miles away on the Buffalo.

Watershed 2010

(See Michael Glover, Rorke's Drift, 1975, an excellent account of the siege and its background, and other works cited in these Notes.) [p. 288] 9.

Watershed 2010

Kelly Cates's 90‑second report from Rorke's Drift summing up the Zulu wars was pretty breathtaking, and do not even get me started on Dan and Rob Walker on the BBC Bus, with their series of goggle-eyed What I Did On My Holidays features.

World Cup 2010: Can we have less whale watching and more football? 2010

When he walked back in, it was in a place as different from Rorke's Drift as anything on this earth could be.

Watershed 2010

- King of the Zulu, after the battle of Rorke's Drift

I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

And I thought I'd seen the last of Tiger Jack Moran after Rorke's Drift but, damme, he came back to haunt my old age and almost had me indicted for murder.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010