Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There FD25 When her father suddenly dies

When her father suddenly dies

which moves entertainingly from the eloquent and philosophical to the ribald and ridiculous

and the healing of our own wounds

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Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There FD25 When her father suddenly diesThe great host came steadily on, spreading out spreading out spreading out till they seemed like a giant pair of nut crackers opening round the little nut of Rorke's Drift. Surgeon Major James Henry Reynolds V. C., Army Medical DepartmentOn 22 January 1879, during the final hour of the Battle of iSandlwana one of the greatest disasters ever to befall British troops during the Victorian era a very different story was about to unfold a few miles away at