Battle of Rorke's Drift close to defeating the much smaller garrison, but were ultimately repelled. Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders, along with a number of other decorations and honours. Rorke's Drift, known as "kwaJimu" ("Jim's Land") in the Zulu language, was a mission station and the former trading post of James Rorke, an Irish merchant. It was located near a drift, or ford, on the Buffalo (Mzinyathi) River, which at the time formed the border between the British colony of Natal and the Zulu Kingdom. On 9 January 1879, the British No. 3 (Centre) Column, under Lord Chelmsford, arrived and encamped
The Night Walker (film) The Night Walker (film) The Night Walker is a 1964 American psychological thriller film by genre specialist William Castle, with a screenplay by Robert Bloch, starring Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Hayden Rorke, Judi Meredith, Rochelle Hudson, and Lloyd Bochner as "The Dream." The film was one of the last black and white theatrical features released by Universal Pictures, and Stanwyck's last motion picture. Irene Trent is unhappily married to a blind, pathologically possessive millionaire inventor, Howard. Howard and Irene's palatial mansion is packed with an endless assortment of cuckoo clocks, all in perfect synchronization, and Howard tape records all conversations