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The British victory at Rorke's Drift during the Anglo-Zulu War was shocking. Three to four thousand Zulu Warriors against roughly one-hundred and fifty British soldiers in a "fort" of biscuit tins and mealie bags! It seems impossible! The very idea seems more the realm of poorly written fantasy and "fanfics" than of real history! Let's go into some of the numbers and take a look at just utterly fantastical the entire situation is, and how utterly unrealistic it would be to assume the British had a "snowball's chance in hell" at winning the battle...that is, until you realize that by some miracle, they actually did....
(Spoiler: the miracle is logistics and politics) -
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