On 22 January last year, the entrance whiteboard at London Underground’s Dollis Hill carried a brief factual statement:
On this day in history
On the 22–23 January 1879 in Natal, South Africa, a small British garrison named Rorke’s Drift was attacked by 4,000 Zulu warriors. The garrison was successfully defended by just over 150 British and colonial troops.
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