Battle of Rorke's Drift Battle of Rorke's Drift The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was a battle in the Anglo-Zulu War. The defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenants John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Gonville Bromhead, immediately followed the British Army's defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, and continued into the following day. Just over 150 British and colonial troops successfully defended the garrison against an intense assault by 3,000 to 4,000 Zulu warriors. The massive but piecemeal Zulu attacks on Rorke's Drift came very
Jack Stanley and became independent in 1930. Stanley succeeded House as its general secretary in 1939. Stanley was known as a left-wing activist. He was a member of the board of the Labour Publishing Society, which launched the Socialist Fellowship in 1949, and published "Socialist Outlook", a newspaper associated with Gerry Healy. Under his leadership, the union affiliated to the Movement for Colonial Freedom, Stanley announced that he would retire in May 1957, but he died before he was able to do so. Jack Stanley Jack Stanley (1885 – 2 April 1957) was a British trade union leader. Born in Liverpool, Stanley