Zulu Wars by Frontline

Rorke's Drift, Zulu land, 22-23 January 1879

While disaster struck the British Army at Islandwana, an action of extreme bravery occurred at the small missionary station of Rorke's Drift. Hospital staff and sixty casualties, and eighty one men from B Company, 11/24th Foot, under the command of Lieutenants Chard and Bromhead, hastily built defensive works and successfully held the Station against a force of 4,500 Zulus.