Zulu (1964 film) and his daughter (Ulla Jacobsson), Zulu King Cetewayo (Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi) is also informed of the great victory. A company of the British Army's 24th Regiment of Foot is using the missionary station of Rorke's Drift in Natal as a supply depot and hospital for their invasion force across the border in Zululand. Receiving news of Isandhlwana from the Natal Native Contingent Commander Adendorff, who warns that an army of 4,000 Zulu warriors is advancing to the British position, Lieutenant John Chard (Stanley Baker) of the Royal Engineers assumes command of the small British detachment. Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead (Michael Caine),
Battle of Rorke's Drift Oceans of Eternity" depicts a battle between the small garrison force defending a Republic of Nantucket supply base and a massed force of Ringapi warriors; not only are the defensive tactics taken almost directly from Lt. Chard's plan for the defense of Rorke's Drift, but the battle itself later becomes known as "The Battle of O'Rourke's Ford". Tanya Huff's first Confederation series book "Valor's Choice", includes a battle based on the battle of Rorke's Drift. The battle of Rorke's Drift was given a chapter in military historian Victor Davis Hanson's book "Carnage and Culture" (2002) as one of several landmark