Dimitri’s Reviews > A Handful of Heroes, Rorke's Drift: Facts, Myths and Legends > Status Update
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Widow's pension was introduced together with the abolition of flogging in 1881; rotten teeth were treated with gunpowder at risk of facial injury & troops imported new strains of syphilis. Such were the lives of the ranks fighting a war sanctioned not by London but by South Africa's High Commissioner...Via the open ford at Rorke's Drift rather than the protection of Fort Pine 4 ml upstream...
— Jan 20, 2019 01:06PM
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There was, in short, some routine army traffic up & down the road past the Drift that faithful day. For those moving along it, chance alone dictated whether they were present when the battle unfolded.[It also explains the latitude for false claimants a bit] Chard was a recent arrival & Bourne knew only his own regiment well; neither has a 100% accurate list & we have no originals of either for a fresh reconstruction.
— May 16, 2019 02:13PM
