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Rorke's Drift - the British is the first Turning Points scenario in Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy.
Briefing[]
With the barricades of mealie bags (two-hundred-pound sacks of grain) and biscuit boxes (one hundred pounds each) , the post at Rorke's Drift is actually reasonably secure, given the fact that the Zulus have no artillery and genearlly poor quality firearms. And despite the huge disparity in numbers, the British garrison does have some advantages. For one, the fact that you occupy a fort, albiet a makeshift one, means that the Zulus will be unable to execute 'the horns of the bull,' since there are no flanks to envelop. Also, the fact that your perimeter is mall will make difficult for the Zulu indunas to bring the full force of their numerical superiority to bear at any one time. There is simply little room for all their soldiers to attack at once. There is no time to cut down the brush and trees to the north of the station, nor to otherwise clear any fields of fire, since the barricades shuold receive top priority.
Ammunition boxes are opened and bayonets are fixed.
History[]
By the middle of the nineteenth century Great Britain held two colonies in southern Africa, the Cape Colony and Natal. These stretched from the southern tip of the continent (the Cape) upwards along its eastern coast (Natal). In the interior of the region were two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. Among these European enclaves were the remnants of the original African nations, the strongest of which was the Zulu kingdom, just north of Natal.
To Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, the British government's High Commissioner for Southern Africa, this simply would not do. To Frere, the fiercely independent Zulus posed a serious threat to the policy of 'Conferderation', which he advocated. In early December of 1878 Frere's agents presented King Cetshwayo with a list of demands which Frere knew the king could not possibly accept, along with a deadline of thirty days to repsond. Meanwhile Chelmsford assembled his forces for the coming invasion. On 11 Jaunuary 1879, he led the column across the Mzinyathi (Buffalo) River, the border between Natal and KwaZulu, at a former trading post and current mission station known as Rorke's Drift. The invasion of KwaZulu was under way. In the aftermath of the British defeat and Zulu victory at IsandIwana, the British defenders of Rorke's Drift, the British defenders of Rorke's Drift were hailed as heroes by their countrymen. Eleven of them would be awarded the Victoria Cross, more than for any other single engagement in all of British military history, and another five would receive the Disinguished Conduct Medal. The Zulus who attacked Rorke's Drift, however, returned to their homes to face shame and ridicule. In truth, the soldiers on each side of the battle deserve credit for fighting just as doggedly and bravely as their opponents.
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Primary Objectives[]
- Defeat the Zulu Army.
Lose Conditions[]
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Walkthrough[]
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