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| Picture No | 10218344 |
| Date | 1879 |
| Description | The Zulu war. The entrenched position at Rorke's Drift. |
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The scene as reinforcements arrive at Rorke's Drift, successfully defended by the British from 3,000 Zulus. Extended caption: Note from Captain Crealock 'About 6.30am we reached Rorke's drift, and saw the smoke rising from the post. Too late! too late! But no- from amidst the smoke we saw some figures gesticulating: then a flag waved. Glasses out! They are red coats! Russell and the mounted men are sent forward, plunge in to the river and scrambling out on the opposite side, gallop up. A moment's doubt if it be not a zulu ruse. But no, the morning breeze now brings across the frontier river the glad sound of a British cheer. We were NOT too late. There were 351 dead bodies found lying around the house, and between it and the hill; and sixty around and in the burning hospital, which they had succeeded in firing.'
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| Source | Illustrated London News. 1879. Extra supplement.. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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