Last week saw the 140th anniversary of the Battle of Rorke’s Drift. It was a battle that saw around 150 British and colonial troops successfully defend a small British mission station against a ...

An album of photographs showing the aftermath of the Battle of Rorke's Drift, belonging to the British officer who won a Victoria Cross for leading the valiant 12-hour defence of a British ...

Private Adams was among the sick and wounded in the Rorke's Drift mission station hospital when they were attacked. He and Gunner Arthur Howard barricaded the door then smashed holes in it to fire ...

The story of the defence of Rorke's Drift has gone down in Welsh folklore. The defenders were mainly - but not totally - from B Company, 24th Regiment of Foot, later known as the South Wales ...

The wrong soldiers were awarded Victoria Cross medals after the British Army's battle with the Zulus at Rorke's Drift, while the true heroes went unrecognised, a new BBC documentary will claim ...

The family of one of the heroes of Rorke's Drift that inspired the film Zulu is trying to buy back his lost medals after they saw them put up for auction. Alfred Saxty was just 20-years-old at the ...

The bravery of Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead during the defence of the mission station at Rorke's Drift in the Zulu War of 1879 has come to symbolise courage in the face of overwhelming odds.

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Isandlwana - The historic Rorke’s Drift battlefield, a few kilometres away from Isandlwana, will now form part of the annual commemoration of the Battle of Isandlwana. This follows years of ...