. Battles of the nineteenth century . *^1 1 wk fc^ l^^p ^^^^^K\^^ RK ^^^^^ ^^^ \ -^^r>c ■ / T^ X .\\ ^■ j; / „ .-^--. ^ - LIEUTENANT , Elliott ^^ Fry, Baker Street, W.) comrades, and they had many causes of feud andquarrel with the enemy. But, as in all otheroccasions of the war where Natal Kaffirs were RORKES DRIFT. 333 employed, they gave way in time of stress,and the greatest shame of the matter was thattheir colonial European officer now shared theirmisconduct. The garrison at Rorkes Drift was nowreduced to Bromheads company of the 24th—about eighty strong—and some men of
. Battles of the nineteenth century . *^1 1 wk fc^ l^^p ^^^^^K\^^ RK ^^^^^ ^^^ \ -^^r>c ■ / T^ X .\\ ^■ j; / „ .-^--. ^ - LIEUTENANT , Elliott ^^ Fry, Baker Street, W.) comrades, and they had many causes of feud andquarrel with the enemy. But, as in all otheroccasions of the war where Natal Kaffirs were RORKES DRIFT. 333 employed, they gave way in time of stress,and the greatest shame of the matter was thattheir colonial European officer now shared theirmisconduct. The garrison at Rorkes Drift was nowreduced to Bromheads company of the 24th—about eighty strong—and some men of othercorps, the total number within the post being including a well-built stone kraal or enclosurewhich abutted on it to the eastward. To carryout this plan he commenced an inner retrench-ment, forming a parapet of biscuit-boxes across thelarger enclosure. This was only about two boxeshigh when the expected flood of attack hurledits first waves against the frail solitary bulwarkwhich stood between Natal and savage invasion. 1
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