THE HERO OF RORKE'S DRIFT

The death of Colonel Ctinrd, "V.0., > recalls one of the most painful, and also t one of the most insoiritiag, events m JJ British warfare. It might seem s.uper- fluoua to re-tell the story of the defence i of Rorke'a Drift ; yet such a tale can I hardly be told too often. It is eighteen . years old, and moat of us have for c gotten the first impression created by ( the news of the Isandula disaster m < January. 1879, which sudden ! y con- j verted the Zulu war from a " little " to a big one. But as a contemporary reoord puts it, the intelligence was" us complete and almost «s horrifying a surprise as the Indian Mutiny, and nothing has occurred since then to stir public feeling about Imperial affairs so profoundly." Though it was not felt that there was any danger of a province being lost to the Orown, there were keen fears for the safety of thfe colonists. " Were the victorious Zulus likely to overrun Natal?" or 11 Oould the troops still m the colony hold their own till reinforcements from home BhouJd reach them?"— these were the burning questions of the hour. Pernaps these fears were to some extent exagger ated, for the victorious Zulus them- Belves were said to have been dismayed when they found that, instead of annihilating the whole British column, they had only destroyed the camp and its defenders, and had the main body still to reckon with. However this maybe, some four thousand of the Zulus, a sixth, perhaps, of their total cumbers, followed up the destruction of the camp by pouring down on Korke's Drift, which represented the gateway into Natal. Here Lieutenants Ohard and Bromhead had been left with eighty men m charge of the com missariat post and hospital. Fugi tives brought them news of what had happened at Isandula. The saf ty of Natal was at stake. Without flinching, thiß handful of men set to work im provising a barricade with whatever materials they could get— biscuit tins, bags, and other things from the stores. Before they had finished their slender fortification, they were already under fire. Throughout the night these eighty men, with their two young leaders, held out against the savage onslaughts of the four thousand Zulus, who six times burst through the barricade, and were as often driven out at the bayonet's point. At dawn Lord- Chelmsford's column was seen approaching, and the enemy fled. Natal, or at all events a portion of it, was saved, and the Isandula calamity was partially redeemed by what is, with justice, ] described as the most gallant defence offered to an enemy m the annals of our time. The fact that the enemy was a savage one does not detract from the heroism of the defence when we con sider the numbers engaged. It is not a bad thing m these money-grubbing titoes to be reminded that the British character has its vein of heroism which is seldom found wanting when stress and danger call ib into force. There was, undoubtedly, many a stirring proof of the fact., of which the world can never know anything, even at the slaughter of Isandula itself, apart from the saving of the colors by Lieutenants Melville and Ooghill. The whole country is at the present moment ring ing with the praises of the Gord-m Highlanders at Dargai. Lance-Oorporal Piper Patrick Milne is a national hero, and the story of how, when shot through both legs and brought to the ground m the bullet-swept fire zone, he " managed to get himself into a sitting position," and, though wi.th gradually diminishing vigor continued piping " Oock o' the North," is likely to become a classic. But Milne was only one of the five Gordon Highlander pipers who marched through the fire zone. Three were wounded besides himself, and only one got across unhurt. The amount of nerve required to march across a given space which the enemy have previously marked out as their target and m which their bullets are spluttering like hailstones — and not merely to grit your teeth and rush through it, but to play the bagpipes during the process —is not to be readily grasped by those of us who read of these things m our armchairs at home. Captain Robin son, of the Gurkhas, traversed the fire zone three times — first m successfully leading his men across to cover, then returning for supports, and for the third time m leading a second rush m support of the first contingent, and m this second rash he received a • fatal wound. Lieutenant Til lard led across a company of Gurkhas, and, when midway the men appeared momentarily to hesitate, he t{ en couraged them with kindly and stimu lating words, while the hail of bullets continued all around them." Oolocel Mathias himself has contributed to our military stories by a speech which promises to become historic, and which proved him a fit leader for such men as the Gordons — for whom the Gurkhas, too, were worthy comrades. When we are recalling examples of mi itary heroism, Dargai may be fairly put alongside Rorke's Drift. Both ex emplify the fact that, whatever may be said about the degeneracy of the times, brave men are never found wanting amongst us when an emer gency calls for them, whether m war or m peace.

THB ABHBOKTGS GtJARDIAfI : WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5 1898

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