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Description: British Empire - Rorke's Drift Mission Station, was a mission station of the Church of Sweden, and the former trading post of James Rorke, a merchant from the Eastern Cape. It was located near a ford, on the Buffalo River, which at the time formed the border between the British colony of Natal and the Zulu Kingdom. The Battle of Rorke's Drift, was an engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War. The successful British defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenants John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Gonville Bromhead of the 24th Regiment of Foot, after the defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana, has become legendary in British history.
