The Battlefield of Rorkes Drift
drewfranks > albums > South Africa, Summer 2004 - Week 2
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The Battle of Rorke's Drift was fought on the same day, 22 January 1879, as the nearby Battle of Isandlwana, where the British army suffered the most humiliating defeat in its history against a native military force, fighting the Zulu army of King Cetshwayo. At Rorkes Drift a small band of Britsh defeated a supperior Zulu force. The British were holed up in the hospital buildings that you see in the photo. Subsequent to the battle the British awarded 11 Victoria Crosses.
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