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Thursday, May 23. 2024

The Battle of Rourke's Drift

Interesting, but not historically important




Posted by Bird Dog in History at 15:22 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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Take 2 hours and just watch the movie ZULU. Great movie, mostly correct. Glad the links are working again.
#1 grant1863 on 2024-05-23 18:39 (Reply)
Yes, Zulu was an excellent movie. Those soldiers were amazing fighters. I have watched it several times. Never get tired of it.
#2 Stargazer on 2024-05-24 08:54 (Reply)
Zulu indeed was a great war movie. While on that subject, and please excuse my whataboutism, but take a look at Twelve O'Clock High. That did not involve the few beating the many, but rather the raw courage of young Americans facing death in aerial combat (and a super first fifteen minutes). On the 2019 version of Midway.
#3 War movie lover on 2024-05-24 09:59 (Reply)
It was a classic example of superior weapons, grim determination and training overcoming incredible odds. I don't think it will work for Taiwan though. It probably won't save our carrier fleet in the Taiwan straight either.
#4 OneGuy on 2024-05-24 10:23 (Reply)
I agree with you on Taiwan, but do not underestimate the difficulty of moving an invading force across open water -- See what happened to the Spanish Armada, among other lessons from history.
#4.1 War movie lover on 2024-05-24 10:27 (Reply)
Zulu is a good film but takes the obligatory swipe at Christians, The missionary in the film, far from getting drunk and fleeing was decorated by the queen for his actions
#5 Dale the peasant on 2024-05-24 12:23 (Reply)
I concur that Zulu was a good movie. The surviving defenders were very fortunate.

Had the Zulus had a competent general, they could have overwhelmed the defenders rather quickly. They just needed to attack from all sides at once with everything they had.
#6 feeblemind on 2024-05-26 14:20 (Reply)

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