The History Chap Podcast
Join Chris Green - The History Chap - as he explores the stories behind British history - the great events, the forgotten stories and the downright bizarre!Chris is a historian by training, and has a way of bringing history to life by making it relevant, interesting and entertaining.www.thehistorychap.com
The History Chap Podcast
267: The Man Who Saved Rorke's Drift
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Chris Green
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Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
The film Zulu made the Battle of Rorke's Drift legendary, but it turned its most important defender into a footnote.
In the 1964 classic, James Langley Dalton appears as a quiet, effete commissariat clerk who hands out ammunition and fires not a shot, and somehow ended up with a Victoria Cross.
The real story, however, is far different, and far more exciting.