"Rorke's Drift - the storehouse" Topic
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| redcoat | 30 May 2012 12:23 p.m. PST |
Hi all, Can anyone help with this query? Historically, did the storehouse interior have windows/doors/loopholes opening onto the *outside* of the defensive perimeter which (as in the case of the hospital) would have enabled British occupants to fire *out* and oncoming Zulus to break *in*? If not, was there something structurally different about the storehouse that made *loopholing* it for fire impossible? Or was there not enough time to loophole the storehouse? Or was it simply unnecessary to loophole the walls if a handful of redcoats could take post on the roof? (I *believe* that it was a much taller building than the hospital, and that the only immediate access onto the roof was a ladder fixed inside the perimeter.) Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Was there no direct Zulu assault on the storehouse *simply* because the initial Zulu axis of advance (roughly from the SSW, against the hospital) and the gradual *clockwise* shift of the main Zulu attacks therafter effectively left the storehouse out of reach? Thanks in advance for any observations!
Cheers,
Redcoat |
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