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
Fail Safe (1964 film) could result in the erroneous go-command depicted in the novel and the movie. "Fail Safe" and "Dr. Strangelove" were both produced by Columbia Pictures in the period after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when people became much more sensitive to the threat of nuclear war. "Strangelove" director Stanley Kubrick, who adapted Peter George's novel "Red Alert", insisted that the studio release his movie first (in January 1964). "Fail Safe" so closely resembled "Red Alert" that Kubrick and George filed a copyright infringement lawsuit. The case was settled out of court. Fail Safe (1964 film) Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War