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Rourkes Drift in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Rourkes Drift in South Africa. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1879–1879

Historical events in Rourkes Drift

1879

1879
Battle of Rourkes Drift
Cetewayo · Great Britain-Zulu War

British victory over the Zulus

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