Rorke's Drift was a mission station in
KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa. The defense of Rorke's Drift (
January 22 -
23 1879) during the
Zulu War, immediately followed the
British Army's humiliating defeat at
Isandhlwana[?] (
January 21,
1879). At Rorke's Drift approximately 150
British soldiers defended their garrison against an intense assault by roughly 5000
Zulu warriors. In the ensuing action, eleven
Victoria Crosses were won, the largest number of VCs awarded during a single action in British military history.
The events surrounding the assault on Rorke's Drift were dramatised in the film Zulu[?] in 1964. In 1979 the battle at Isandhlwana was dramatised in the film Zulu Dawn[?].