It was reported that the fire from the burning buildings lit up the area so bright, that the British garrison was able to spot the attacking Zulus at night, in fact, the soldiers said that this was a saving grace.
Unfortunately Stanly Baker and Michael Caine in no way resembled Chard and Bromhead - Chard had a big black bushy beard and Bromhead an imposing set of mutton chop whiskers.
@@jediknight73 141 Welsh Soldiers against 4000 Zulu Warriors a lot of whom were armed with the same rifles as the Welsh as they had taken them from the dead 1300 British soldiers whom they’d killed the previous day and had the British outgunned so bragging about beating little kids? Read. Before you write
@@RobertStewart-i3m No they didn't. That was put in because the film makers thought it was the Welsh borderers when in fact it was the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
It was Isandlewana in reverse. The British played their defense cards strongly. Apparently the Zulu King was outraged when he learned that his forces had crossed the border into Natal because it gave London carte blanche to intervene far more.
Considering the Zulu king actually wanted to sue for peace after Isandlewana, as he had shown his strength and control, he would have been infuriated that the British returned much stronger and used much harsher tactics than he would himself. His whole plan was stuffed up by Rorkes ridge catastrophe! Both home teams were smaller..... but comparable with Isandlewana. The only difference was location and better commanders... We cant even say better trained troops, really. Just better leadership!
I know this video has been done before on my channel but looking back at it, I think it was low quality and wanted to redo it! The main Battle starts at 7:47 , hope you enjoy watching
Thank you for this work. To see animation of the actual positions and "orientation" of the battle field is something always overlooked or "glossed over" by previous presentations. Well done. Thank you.
Just finished my LEGO history animation about the battle of Isandlwana and now was searching for the proper info about the Rorke's drift battle to use it as a plot for my part 2 animation. Thank you for this story. Now I have to make my LEGO version of this battle )
@@cinematicbattles559 You made a great video so It was my pleasure to watch ) And dont forget that LEGO is not only for kids so maybe one day you want to check smth -you are always welcome! ))
Great visuals. Nice to see Dalton recognised. Settlers were told by Government in London not to cross the Orange River into Zululand/Natal. They did. There was no intention from the British Government to engage in violence. There are books on Rorke's Drift which explains all this. Suggest interested folk acquire a Library copy if they can't buy it. Sadly I can't find the book I had read which explains this - others suggest an invasion of Zululand was planned!
Thought it was great that the avatars for Chard and Bromhead were Stanley Baker and Michael Caine! As with Wayne, Wydmark, et al in The Alamo, they made those characters their own. Pity you couldn't get a Richard Burton Voiceover...
The film Zulu was spectacular cinema entertainment for the masses. But why did it need a Yank, Cy Endfied to write the screenplay & co-Direct it? Whatever reason, he made a cracking spectacle of it. We Brits had never seen a battle done on celluloid quite like this before. Previously - North West Frontier & The Cruel Sea had been classics of British Cinema & some liked Bridge over the River Kwai (but not me). I don't think the Jack Hawkins 'cowardly vicar' section added anything to the experience though. It certainly didn't happen in reality... I would have liked the British Director Ridley Scott have had a go at it, but I guess it was a bit early for him as he probably wasn't around in 1962/63. Ridley Scott Directed some crackers - The Duellists, Alien & Blade Runner.
Hook saved every body in the Hospital he was a real soldier not a malingerer as shown in the movie , and He was a True rifle man , he also went out after the final battle to look for a Zulu he had shot at 400 yards away and he found him with a bullet hole right in the centre of his fore head he was almost killed going back in by one Zulu who was just playing dead but the Zulu would of been better off not attacking as Hook killed him where he was. He was only 54 when he died and is buried in Hereford. where he was born. I saw pictures of his Funeral and couldn't believe how many people attended.True Hero.
I’ve been there and my family had a tour with a fella called Dr Rattray, this was a 30 years ago or so. He made the place come alive with his knowledge and area and gave us a fab day and we had lunch with him.amazing person, found out he got murdered there with his family I think, very sad. Whilst we were out for the whole day, I saw in the ground buried was a dark metal round thing, all crushed up and bent and was told it was a used case from a .577 round. Amazing to think that was used on the day and probably killed someone. A lucky souvenir that I still have as I took it. As I was a kid I stupidly imagined that if there were 88mm guns, M60’s, 50 cals belt fed, gunship helicopter with mini guns, mortars, mines, flame throwers, gas bombs, all Brits armed with machine guns etc how that would have gone? Would have lasted about 15 mins in total and Queen Victoria would have been happy 😂
Another great video. I have one criticism, however. I have watched several of these awesome battle recreations; the editing, sound effects, etc., are first rate. The narration can be somewhat spotty. Pronunciations change, sometimes pulling the viewer out of the “viewer’s trance”. Now, I’m not the greatest voice actor, but I would like to volunteer my services for future videos.
The Hospital siege is totally missing and this accounted for nine of the sixteen killed and the fire supplied the light for the defenders to see the enemy at night.
Seven were killed on the ramparts, all by rifle fire - three fit men, three patients and one non-combatant. The hospital siege accounted for nine killed ( eight stabbed, most in their sickbeds)
Commissary Dalton is the true hero of Rorkes Drift,but being an ex ranker Victorian snobbery ruled .Pte Williams VC is buried in my home town of Cwmbran
This is believed more each time it is repeated - there was actually a discussion between the senior officers and it was decided to stand and fight - Chard wasn't even present as he was still at his post on the river.
Four of the eleven VCs were awarded purely for defense of the hospital patients, Private Joseph Williams, the only fit soldier to be killed by assegais, deserved a posthumous award but these were virtually unknown at the time.
3:17 "Helpmekaar" im Dutch, and its funny to me to hear all these dutch settler words. It means: "Help Eachother", so im speculating here, but i assume the people founding it must have been very good neighbors to eachother.
No "Men of Harlech?" (I know, not historically accurate and copyright laws and all that. And this is a great video, still when I think of this battle I hear that song.)
Yes I would have loved to include that as that moment is one of my favourite from the film but unfortunately like you said, there would have been copyright issues. Thanks for watching !
@@cinematicbattles559 and most of the members of this Warwickshire regiment would never have heard of Men of Harlech let alone known the words. The 24th Foot became a Welsh regiment almost 2 years after this battle.
The counter-attack at night was the key. Counter-attacks shock the enemy when they've already been repulsed and now realize they're now on the defensive.
The war? Lost? South Africa? Get a book mate! The UK also had Colonies and Dominions elsewhere of course and despite the violence associated with expanding and defending treaties made with local chiefs, you can hardly say these countries are now better off than before, can you?
Okay, so you can relive this engagement in Total War- I wish I had a computer powerful enough for that- but has anyone tried just surrounding Rorke’s Drift, and attacking en masse?
Watching the History channel the guy was saying if the Zulu had known how to use a rifle they would of wiped out Rorkes Drift.. And those Rifles would not only of killed the man it hit but probably the man behind him and maybe the next man as well.
Always strange to me that non firearms combatants choose to attack in the daylight. This makes them easy targets. I would choose to attack with the cover of dark.
I think I remember reading somewhere that they didn’t attack at night due to superstitious reasons but I might be wrong, yet the zulus attacked at night at rorkes drift so you raise a good point
@@Gungho1a l don't think you need great organization when you're just needing to overrun a fort. They certainly had no plan when they sent wave after wave to the slaughter in the daylight.
Crime committed already with the butcherisation of the pronunciation of the word Natal @ 0:21 LOL and of course one of the most defiant defense by British forces!
Nice video, or half of one, anyway. The narration has several mistakes in it near the beginning, and the repeated use of sound clips from "ZULU" (1964) doesn't fit all the time, and eventually gets rather tiresome.
@@cinematicbattles559 Oh, yeah, I've played that as well. Napoleon was actually better in my opinion then Empire. They made artillery units much more usefull.
@salvadorvizcarra769 Trial by jury, railways, parliamentary democracy, a free press, the English language, the first nation to abolish slavery and enforce it across the world, the defeat of tyrants like Napoleon, Hitler and the Argentine Junta, the Industrial revolution, the outlawing of Sati and the Thugee, every single sport in the world (except Lacrosse) - I mean you should be thanking us, to you we were Gods.
'Every single sport in the world except lacrosse'. I think you mean except Lacrosse, Basketball and Baseball. The latter two were American. Great post otherwise though.
British Army were slow to take up the repeating rifle, various types had been available on the world arms market for a considerable time from the German needle rifle to the American Henry Repeater later to be branded with few mods as the Winchester (Oliver Winchester himself was a successful Shirt Making Businessman who bought the Henry Repeating Rifle Co & rebranded it under his own name, I doubt if Oliver Winchester knew the difference between the muzzle end & breech end of a rifle). The Winchester would have been my choice of weapon at Rorkes Drift. The Brits tested the Winchester & dismissed it because it was difficult to 'rechamber' a round in the prone position. And it's long range accuracy was not as good as the Martini Henry. I ask you - how many battles of the period were conducted by the Brits with the Infantry lying on their stomachs? Can't think of one. The Winchester would have been the perfect tool to see off thousands of charging tribesmen who didn't value their own lives. The perfect 'close quarters' weapon of the period. The slow to load Martini Henry cost a lot of lives... As the Confederate soldiers said during the American Civil War about the Unions Henry Repeating Rifle (the Winchester's direct ancestor) - "You Load it on a Sunday & Fire it through the week. 😂
It's a huge myth that the Zulus charged forward in mass without any care for their own lives. At Isandlwana they made great use of the ground. The 2 to 3 ft lush grass, the dry river beds, the dips and rises in the terrain etc. The Zulus were often throwing themselves to the ground, crouching and crawling forward. It wasnt a stand up mass charge forward once the Martini Henry rifles opened up. British firepower had actually stalled the Zulu chest and the Zulus could not move forward. It was Durnford on the extreme right flank running out of ammo at the donga that turned the battle. He had to abandon his position. This collapsed the British right and the Zulus had an unopposed run at the camp from that side so the bugle was sounded to withdraw the 24th Foot from the firing line otherwise the Zulus on the right flank would have cut them off from the rear. It was this lull in the firing that allowed the Zulu chest to move forward again. At Rorkes Drift, the Martini Henry rifles stopped the Zulus. Same at Nyezane, Khambula and Gingindlovu.
@@lyndoncmp5751 So, if they cared for their own lives, how come so many Zulus got slaughtered. I imagine that there was one encounter between Brits & Zulus where the Zulus lost less men. And that includes Isadlwana. Nobody can put a figure on Zulu losses during the battles against the Brits. The Zulus simple didn't keep written records. I doubt it the Zulus even knew how many men they sent into battle, let alone their losses...
@@chrismaguire3667 Even if Number Three Column had a Gatling gun (as Number One Column did) it wouldn't have been left behind at Rorkes Drift. It probably wouldn't have been left behind at Isandlwana either. Chelmsford would likely have taken it out with him, as he did the four cannons.
@@MySteaming Well they still had to fight. Just as they weren't standing up and charging forward the whole time, nor were they ducking and hiding the whole time. It was a mix of both. When they got close to the British firing line at its most effective they did stall and often went to ground. The Zulus themselves said they were pinned down. A lot of Zulus died in the last mellies too, including hand to hand. Cannon fire also took a fair number out initially when the Zulus came down the escarpment.
I love how they used Colour Sergeant Bourne's voice in this lol. Nigel Green was perfect in this film
Nigel Green was a very unrated actor
He always carrys weight in his acting technique- brilliant
I agree completely
This lay out is wrong and so is the barricades!
He put the voice in the game
Yes but Colour sergeant Bourne was not as big as Nigel Green he was only 5'3'' tall but a professional soldier.
It was reported that the fire from the burning buildings lit up the area so bright, that the British garrison was able to spot the attacking Zulus at night, in fact, the soldiers said that this was a saving grace.
I visited Rorkes Drift in 2008 on a guided tour and the guide who was an expert on the subject verified what you mention regarding the fire.
I can’t think of anything harder to see at night then a half naked Zulu. 😂
It's trivial, but I absolutely love that the sprites for Chard and Bromhead resemble Stanley Baker and Michael Caine.
Yes I like how this mod implements things from the movie
and you took the words right out of my mouth :P
They did Charles Gordon from Khartoum after Charlton Heston in the same mod too!
AND the Sgt Major 'with the muscles'...
Unfortunately Stanly Baker and Michael Caine in no way resembled Chard and Bromhead - Chard had a big black bushy beard and Bromhead an imposing set of mutton chop whiskers.
Whoever made this cinematic film well done
Brits at their best fighting against overwhelming odds and winning
Bragging about killing men with spears is like bragging about beating a little kids
@@jediknight73 141 Welsh Soldiers against 4000 Zulu Warriors a lot of whom were armed with the same rifles as the Welsh as they had taken them from the dead 1300 British soldiers whom they’d killed the previous day and had the British outgunned so bragging about beating little kids? Read. Before you write
150 british men vs. 3000-4000 zulu warriors sounds unfair to you? These zulus also had rifles you know 😂 @jediknight73
@jediknight73 One of the dumbest comments I have ever read on TH-cam.
@@ynwa3476 explanation please ?
Nobody told you to stop working 😅😂, that crack me up.
Excellent video…well done! Those redcoats were something else from a proud Brit!
Thank you for your excellent report! I like the movie Zulu when it first came out and I still do!
Thanks glad you enjoyed it !
It's full of inaccuracies though
I greatly enjoyed the movie, and have it saved. The singing of men of harlech was great. I don't know if they actually did though
@@RobertStewart-i3m No they didn't. That was put in because the film makers thought it was the Welsh borderers when in fact it was the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
@@kevinkenny6975it was a film not a documentary
It was Isandlewana in reverse. The British played their defense cards strongly. Apparently the Zulu King was outraged when he learned that his forces had crossed the border into Natal because it gave London carte blanche to intervene far more.
Considering the Zulu king actually wanted to sue for peace after Isandlewana, as he had shown his strength and control, he would have been infuriated that the British returned much stronger and used much harsher tactics than he would himself. His whole plan was stuffed up by Rorkes ridge catastrophe! Both home teams were smaller..... but comparable with Isandlewana. The only difference was location and better commanders... We cant even say better trained troops, really. Just better leadership!
Hating on the British again are we 😂
Well not really Islandlewana was attacked by 20,000 Zulu but only 4,000 attacked Rorkes Drift.
Apparently the Queen was outraged when she learned what happened at Isandlewana
I know this video has been done before on my channel but looking back at it, I think it was low quality and wanted to redo it!
The main Battle starts at 7:47 , hope you enjoy watching
Thanks I kept waiting for the battle
Thank you for this work. To see animation of the actual positions and "orientation" of the battle field is something always overlooked or "glossed over" by previous presentations. Well done. Thank you.
Thanks a lot ☺️
Best Rorke's Drift video yet! Well done. 👍
Thanks man means a lot
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Just finished my LEGO history animation about the battle of Isandlwana and now was searching for the proper info about the Rorke's drift battle to use it as a plot for my part 2 animation. Thank you for this story. Now I have to make my LEGO version of this battle )
Great! I'm looking forward to watching it, P.S. Used to watch all your videos back in the day so I'm honoured you've commented 😊
@@cinematicbattles559 You made a great video so It was my pleasure to watch ) And dont forget that LEGO is not only for kids so maybe one day you want to check smth -you are always welcome! ))
Yes I certainly will, looking through your channel I can see tonnes of topics that are very interesting to me, should now keep me busy for a while 😂
Sure that was Michael Caine shouting Fire Reload Fire from movie Zulu the first film I ever seen at the cinema thanks for the video clip 👏🏻 👏🏻
Yes it is , thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed
And Nigel Green ( colour sgt Bourne )
The chaos had to be multiplied as darkness fell. Very hard to imagine.
Reload! Fire at will! I suspect many of these brave men were shitting their pants from fear. I damn well would have.
Me too!
Very well done. I learned quite a bit.
Great to hear!
Great visuals. Nice to see Dalton recognised. Settlers were told by Government in London not to cross the Orange River into Zululand/Natal. They did. There was no intention from the British Government to engage in violence. There are books on Rorke's Drift which explains all this. Suggest interested folk acquire a Library copy if they can't buy it. Sadly I can't find the book I had read which explains this - others suggest an invasion of Zululand was planned!
"Sometimes it’s the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”
Proud Welshman.
Although there were Welshmen present, actually the majority of the regiment were English.
I think you mean a proud British man.
Absolutely correct.
@@Alan-gh8X hahaha
24th foot were the 2nd Wariwickshire Regt.
South Wales Borderers didn't exist until 1881, two years after Rorke's Drift.
Thought it was great that the avatars for Chard and Bromhead were Stanley Baker and Michael Caine! As with Wayne, Wydmark, et al in The Alamo, they made those characters their own. Pity you couldn't get a Richard Burton Voiceover...
The film Zulu was spectacular cinema entertainment for the masses.
But why did it need a Yank, Cy Endfied to write the screenplay & co-Direct it?
Whatever reason, he made a cracking spectacle of it.
We Brits had never seen a battle done on celluloid quite like this before.
Previously - North West Frontier & The Cruel Sea had been classics of British Cinema & some liked Bridge over the River Kwai (but not me).
I don't think the Jack Hawkins 'cowardly vicar' section added anything to the experience though.
It certainly didn't happen in reality...
I would have liked the British Director Ridley Scott have had a go at it, but I guess it was a bit early for him as he probably wasn't around in 1962/63.
Ridley Scott Directed some crackers - The Duellists, Alien & Blade Runner.
Burton. Another Welshman
great vid as always
Cheers bro appreciate it
Great work but all the fight in the hospital is missing. The burning hospital gave light to foresee zulu attacks.
Thank you, yes you are right unfortunately the game is old and I couldn’t get the fight how I wanted it - thanks for watching !
Hook saved every body in the Hospital he was a real soldier not a malingerer as shown in the movie , and He was a True rifle man , he also went out after the final battle to look for a Zulu he had shot at 400 yards away and he found him with a bullet hole right in the centre of his fore head he was almost killed going back in by one Zulu who was just playing dead but the Zulu would of been better off not attacking as Hook killed him where he was. He was only 54 when he died and is buried in Hereford. where he was born. I saw pictures of his Funeral and couldn't believe how many people attended.True Hero.
I’ve been there and my family had a tour with a fella called Dr Rattray, this was a 30 years ago or so. He made the place come alive with his knowledge and area and gave us a fab day and we had lunch with him.amazing person, found out he got murdered there with his family I think, very sad.
Whilst we were out for the whole day, I saw in the ground buried was a dark metal round thing, all crushed up and bent and was told it was a used case from a .577 round. Amazing to think that was used on the day and probably killed someone. A lucky souvenir that I still have as I took it.
As I was a kid I stupidly imagined that if there were 88mm guns, M60’s, 50 cals belt fed, gunship helicopter with mini guns, mortars, mines, flame throwers, gas bombs, all Brits armed with machine guns etc how that would have gone? Would have lasted about 15 mins in total and Queen Victoria would have been happy 😂
Want to try that pronunciation of 'Natal' again?
My apologies, the narration was AI generated, hope you enjoyed regardless
Great movie. Good leadership determines the outcome.
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed!
Another great video. I have one criticism, however. I have watched several of these awesome battle recreations; the editing, sound effects, etc., are first rate. The narration can be somewhat spotty. Pronunciations change, sometimes pulling the viewer out of the “viewer’s trance”. Now, I’m not the greatest voice actor, but I would like to volunteer my services for future videos.
I enjoy a overhead perspective so I can see tactics.
nobody told you to spot working is my favorite line there
The Hospital siege is totally missing and this accounted for nine of the sixteen killed and the fire supplied the light for the defenders to see the enemy at night.
I do like that you used voices from the movie
Excellent dude!! Would have joined your channel but youtube wont let me join any for some reason.
Thanks man , don’t worry at all, you’re supporting the channel enough by watching all my videos
@@cinematicbattles559 Love them mate.
In the movie, Lt. Bromhead is heard to shout: 'At 100 yards, fire!'
The AI pronunciation of Natal is doing my head in
Can you do videos on the opium wars?
I will certainly look into it
Seven were killed on the ramparts, all by rifle fire - three fit men, three patients and one non-combatant. The hospital siege accounted for nine killed ( eight stabbed, most in their sickbeds)
I saw that movie "Zulu"when I was a teenager.
interesting info , just work on your pronunciation on some place names.
Commissary Dalton is the true hero of Rorkes Drift,but being an ex ranker Victorian snobbery ruled .Pte Williams VC is buried in my home town of Cwmbran
You don’t know that. You just WANT to think that.
This is believed more each time it is repeated - there was actually a discussion between the senior officers and it was decided to stand and fight - Chard wasn't even present as he was still at his post on the river.
Four of the eleven VCs were awarded purely for defense of the hospital patients, Private Joseph Williams, the only fit soldier to be killed by assegais, deserved a posthumous award but these were virtually unknown at the time.
3:17 "Helpmekaar" im Dutch, and its funny to me to hear all these dutch settler words.
It means: "Help Eachother", so im speculating here, but i assume the people founding it must have been very good neighbors to eachother.
No "Men of Harlech?" (I know, not historically accurate and copyright laws and all that. And this is a great video, still when I think of this battle I hear that song.)
Yes I would have loved to include that as that moment is one of my favourite from the film but unfortunately like you said, there would have been copyright issues. Thanks for watching !
@@cinematicbattles559 and most of the members of this Warwickshire regiment would never have heard of Men of Harlech let alone known the words. The 24th Foot became a Welsh regiment almost 2 years after this battle.
As they had an engineering company there, I was surprised that earthworks had not been constructed at all in the months they were there.
9:06 "Oh. Never mind!" 😆
People complaining about the video...if you don't like it...then make a video... yourself..quit complaining!🤯
Outstanding contribution m'dears, but Lt. Bromhead's name is pronounced "BrUmhead".
At 7:04 dose any one know what that bugle call is im just wondering
Natal in this case is pronounced (Natarl) for those who like to here it spoken correctly.
My apologies the AI has pronounced a number of things wrong , hope you enjoyed the video though
And the correct spelling of “here” is hear-for those who want to write it!
Ugh these were ‘Lef tenants’ not ‘Loo tenants’.
Exactly my irritation too.
Excellent Discipline WINS
Thanks a lot!
The counter-attack at night was the key. Counter-attacks shock the enemy when they've already been repulsed and now realize they're now on the defensive.
does anyone know what order these vides should be watched? I like to keep things in chrono order.
Thank you.
I am working on a video which covers the entire Anglo-Zulu war in 1 video with everything in order so stay tuned!
The British might have won the battle, but they lost the war....anyone arriving in the UK now would think they were in Africa. Britain is lost.
Depends where you go and where you live. It certainly isn't like that where I live.
Nothing new here for the British murderers. Africa, lndia, lreland early America. They actually believed they owned the world and everyone in it
The war? Lost? South Africa? Get a book mate! The UK also had Colonies and Dominions elsewhere of course and despite the violence associated with expanding and defending treaties made with local chiefs, you can hardly say these countries are now better off than before, can you?
What a dumbass thing to say. Have you been to Africa? I don't think you would confuse the two.
@@neilritson7445 should I follow your example and get the "Book of Woke"? Way to miss the point, to serve an agenda.
Okay, so you can relive this engagement in Total War- I wish I had a computer powerful enough for that- but has anyone tried just surrounding Rorke’s Drift, and attacking en masse?
The assault on Rorke's Drift looks a lot like Richmond Virginia on a Friday night.
private "that zulu's waving his spear at you sir"
General "my God man, thats not his spear"
👍good video
😂😂😂
It looks like the Brits have been armed with Lightsabers.
Why use CGI when there is a perfectly good shot of the area in the film Zulu. A very beautiful place, I've been there myself.
The narrator managed to mispronounce EVERY SINGLE PLACE and ZULU NAME! I was dreading hearing how he was going to mangle Cetshwayo.
My apologies the voiceover was AI generated
Well there's your problem@@cinematicbattles559
I wonder if the Zulus would have been more effective with bows and arrows than with spears.
They would have been deadlier
Or the keyboard..nothing like a disgrunteled zulu.
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There were only 11 dead at the roll call out of 139. The others were nt all injured but were knackered. Ammo was not a problem.
Hey man, check out the Grand Battle mod for Napoleon. The scale and visuals I think would be perfect for your TH-cam channel.
Yes I will, thanks for letting me know
Sounds more accurate than the movie.
The brutality and arrogance of the uninvited colonialists never cease to amaze me.
better than the movie!
People think that it was mainly Welsh soldiers at rorke's drirf but there was 49 English,32 Welsh, 16 Irish,1 Scot,3 born overseas, and 21 unknown.
Watching the History channel the guy was saying if the Zulu had known how to use a rifle they would of wiped out Rorkes Drift.. And those Rifles would not only of killed the man it hit but probably the man behind him and maybe the next man as well.
I wonder what happened to the units and officers that retreated.
" All right then, nobody told you to stop working"..
Am I the only one wondering why the leaves and fuzzys floating around in the sky are included ?
The only thing interesting about the video was it used some voice clips from the movie, Zulu. Several times you can hear Chard and Bromhead.
Never heard of a "cape of irish descent." If you meant a merchant of irish descent, why didn't you say it?
You can hear the movie 'Zulu' in this video.
What game or whatever software is used for creating this cinematic?
Napoleon total war with a Zulu mod 👍
Thanks
Always strange to me that non firearms combatants choose to attack in the daylight. This makes them easy targets. I would choose to attack with the cover of dark.
I think I remember reading somewhere that they didn’t attack at night due to superstitious reasons but I might be wrong, yet the zulus attacked at night at rorkes drift so you raise a good point
I would have chosen to stay in Picadilly
but you are a great general
Bit hard to co-ordinate a force of 20 thousand or even 4 thousand in pitch dark, when commands are passed by sight.
@@Gungho1a l don't think you need great organization when you're just needing to overrun a fort. They certainly had no plan when they sent wave after wave to the slaughter in the daylight.
Crime committed already with the butcherisation of the pronunciation of the word Natal @ 0:21 LOL and of course one of the most defiant defense by British forces!
Imagine if Chelmsford had left two companies at the Drift.
Narrator NEEDS Proper Diction Lessons - He REALLY Does
Love this mod.
Yes so do I
Some of the the pronunciation isn't right. Listen to a British person say Natal and Isandlewana.
My apologies the voiceover was AI generated
Haha, fair one
" dashed funny ...... sounds like a train"
It's hard to take this seriously after it cant't pronounce the main locations, 5 min in
The story would be better told if the narrator had a clue how to pronounce place names.
My apologies the narration was made using AI, hope you enjoyed regardless
What is this mod
Victoria at war
It would be better if this guy who’s talking could actually pronounce the words correctly!
My apologies the narration was generated with AI, hope you enjoyed regardless
British courage at its best.
Its pronounced Natarl not Naytal.
Sorry that’s just the AI voiceover pronouncing it wrongly
William Jones VC is buried at Phillips part cemetery,, Clayton, Manchester, UK. I have been to his grave.
Nice video, or half of one, anyway. The narration has several mistakes in it near the beginning, and the repeated use of sound clips from "ZULU" (1964) doesn't fit all the time, and eventually gets rather tiresome.
My apologies unfortunately these sound effects are built into the mod and can’t be muted
Me and the boys uniting and fighting off our crazy ex’s
Alright then!
This looks like Empire: Total War.
It’s napoleon total war 👍
@@cinematicbattles559 Oh, yeah, I've played that as well. Napoleon was actually better in my opinion then Empire. They made artillery units much more usefull.
It is poronounced Nah=tahl not Nae-dal. It was a little over 100 not 400. Get it right.
The Redcoats had less than 150 men! (against 4000)
What’s your point
And you would have had the balls to stand with the Brits?
@salvadorvizcarra769 Trial by jury, railways, parliamentary democracy, a free press, the English language, the first nation to abolish slavery and enforce it across the world, the defeat of tyrants like Napoleon, Hitler and the Argentine Junta, the Industrial revolution, the outlawing of Sati and the Thugee, every single sport in the world (except Lacrosse) - I mean you should be thanking us, to you we were Gods.
'Every single sport in the world except lacrosse'. I think you mean except Lacrosse, Basketball and Baseball. The latter two were American. Great post otherwise though.
@@paultapner2769 Thanks for the compliment bit Baseball originated in England.
"sentries have reported zulus to the sth West, thousands of em " 😅
I wish TW would do a game in this period
This is napoleon total war with a Zulu mod , but yes I wish they had a base game which did
"Just us...nobody else..."
Nobody told you to stop working
I refuse to listen to anything that has an American or an American robot narrating go away
Britain. Zulus bloody thousands of them !
British Army were slow to take up the repeating rifle, various types had been available on the world arms market for a considerable time from the German needle rifle to the American Henry Repeater later to be branded with few mods as the Winchester (Oliver Winchester himself was a successful Shirt Making Businessman who bought the Henry Repeating Rifle Co & rebranded it under his own name, I doubt if Oliver Winchester knew the difference between the muzzle end & breech end of a rifle).
The Winchester would have been my choice of weapon at Rorkes Drift.
The Brits tested the Winchester & dismissed it because it was difficult to 'rechamber' a round in the prone position.
And it's long range accuracy was not as good as the Martini Henry.
I ask you - how many battles of the period were conducted by the Brits with the Infantry lying on their stomachs?
Can't think of one.
The Winchester would have been the perfect tool to see off thousands of charging tribesmen who didn't value their own lives.
The perfect 'close quarters' weapon of the period.
The slow to load Martini Henry cost a lot of lives...
As the Confederate soldiers said during the American Civil War about the Unions Henry Repeating Rifle (the Winchester's direct ancestor) - "You Load it on a Sunday & Fire it through the week. 😂
It's a huge myth that the Zulus charged forward in mass without any care for their own lives. At Isandlwana they made great use of the ground. The 2 to 3 ft lush grass, the dry river beds, the dips and rises in the terrain etc. The Zulus were often throwing themselves to the ground, crouching and crawling forward. It wasnt a stand up mass charge forward once the Martini Henry rifles opened up.
British firepower had actually stalled the Zulu chest and the Zulus could not move forward. It was Durnford on the extreme right flank running out of ammo at the donga that turned the battle. He had to abandon his position. This collapsed the British right and the Zulus had an unopposed run at the camp from that side so the bugle was sounded to withdraw the 24th Foot from the firing line otherwise the Zulus on the right flank would have cut them off from the rear. It was this lull in the firing that allowed the Zulu chest to move forward again.
At Rorkes Drift, the Martini Henry rifles stopped the Zulus. Same at Nyezane, Khambula and Gingindlovu.
It's a pity they couldn't have had a couple of Gatling guns. Still, the defenders would not have got 14 VCs out of the action..
@@lyndoncmp5751 So, if they cared for their own lives, how come so many Zulus got slaughtered.
I imagine that there was one encounter between Brits & Zulus where the Zulus lost less men.
And that includes Isadlwana.
Nobody can put a figure on Zulu losses during the battles against the Brits.
The Zulus simple didn't keep written records.
I doubt it the Zulus even knew how many men they sent into battle, let alone their losses...
@@chrismaguire3667
Even if Number Three Column had a Gatling gun (as Number One Column did) it wouldn't have been left behind at Rorkes Drift. It probably wouldn't have been left behind at Isandlwana either. Chelmsford would likely have taken it out with him, as he did the four cannons.
@@MySteaming
Well they still had to fight. Just as they weren't standing up and charging forward the whole time, nor were they ducking and hiding the whole time. It was a mix of both. When they got close to the British firing line at its most effective they did stall and often went to ground. The Zulus themselves said they were pinned down.
A lot of Zulus died in the last mellies too, including hand to hand.
Cannon fire also took a fair number out initially when the Zulus came down the escarpment.
Sorry but I was not very impressed.
What are those white turbans doing on the zulu's heads?