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Battle of Rorke's Drift

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Rorke's Drift · Buffalo River

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Defence of the mission station by Chard and Bromhead's company on 22-23 January 1879.

Belligerents2

British Empire
Zulu Kingdom

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1880)Zulu Kingdom

Conflict graph

PART OFAnglo-Zulu War

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Rorke's Drift (1879). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-rorke-s-drift · Sources & methodology