“Rorke’s Drift”
Love the movie but two major things in the movie are out of proportion.
The big hill was only a small rise of the river bank set well back from the river. Tall enough to offer an advantage and the defenders did receive fire from it.
The site was also set next to a 6 foot rise in the bank. A line of biscuit box’s was placed there making the wall about 10’ tall. The Zulu’s would be up against the bank and safe from British fire - of course they couldn’t do any thing from there either.
The movie didn’t show that some troops in outbuildings got over run and hid under blankets until dark and then slipped into camp.
Movies have a tough time. Every scene in Texas has hills (they would be called mountains on the East Coast) on the horizon. Ask any Texan. The one thing in Texas that most certainly is not bigger. Texas (outside of the Big Bend area and the Guadalupe’s, where I grew up) is as flat as a pool table. That is why flooding gets so bad. The one 26 foot low spot for a hundred miles in any direction yields 26 feet of water after 1/2 inch of rain. West Texas ain’t part of “geographic” Texas. It is like we used to say when I was in college in Colorado. If God wanted Texans to ski BS would be white.