T he battle of Rorke’s Drift of 22-23 January 1879 was refought in 2018 when a London Underground employee wrote an account of the siege on Dollis Hill Tube station’s notice b ...
AFA copy gift from Janet Stanley. "The defence of Rorke's Drift inspired Victorian Britain and has featured in a classic movie and numerous historical works - it is still remembered as an iconic ...
The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War, witnessed the worst single day's loss of British troops between the battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the ...
On 22 January 1879, on the slopes of a sphinx-shaped hill of Isandlwana in northern KwaZulu-Natal, the world changed forever. Armed with only shields and assegais, some 20,000 Zulu warriors took on ...