Cold Steel'' Private Caleb Wood Rorke''s Drift 22/23 January 1879

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Cold Steel'' Private Caleb Wood Rorke''s Drift 22/23 January 1879

For ten hours Pte. Caleb Wood and members of B Company, 2nd Battalian, 24th Regiment, stood behind the mealie-bag baricades defending he mission station at Rorke's Drift against repeated Zulu attacks. Those attacks were fiercest during the hours of darkness when Wood and a handful of comrades held one section of the line which the Zulus charged time and again: the redcoats greeted each charge with a volley, then met t

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