The defence of Rorke's Drift has gone down in history as one of the grandest heroic actions of British colonial wars.
This text is Jones's account of his part in British Scientific Intelligence between 1939 and 1949.
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But as Adrian Greaves¿s new research shows there are several things about the myth of Rorke¿s Drift that don¿t add up.
This text is a graphic acount of gallant British soldiers struggling for survival and brave Zulu natives fighting to overpower them in the defence of the storehouse and field hospital...
The heroic defence of the mission station at Rorke's Drift became the epic action of the Anglo-Zulu War.
The heroic defence of the mission station at Rorke's Drift became the epic action of the Anglo-Zulu War.
Rorke's Drift: A Victorian Epic