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To: Jim W N
the film Zulu was based on actual facts, it was.one of two attacks. the other the British army was destroyed. the attack at Roarks Drift was actually on British controlled land in Africa. that attack was forbidden by the Zulu king but they went ahead anyway. the other attack Islamabad was Zulu lands.
65 posted on 03/11/2023 1:26:07 PM PST by Ronald77
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“the film Zulu was based on actual facts, it was.one of two attacks. the other the British army was destroyed. the attack at Roarks Drift was actually on British controlled land in Africa. that attack was forbidden by the Zulu king but they went ahead anyway. the other attack Islamabad was Zulu lands.”

You have your continents mixed up. Rorke’s Drift was in Natal, South Africa, in 1879; Islamabad is in Pakistan. Perhaps you are confusing it with Isandlwana?


80 posted on 03/11/2023 2:46:50 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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