[BlueLancer]

This was the same, more or less, situation at Isandlwana, where the Brits overextended their lines and lacked ammo.

Of course, then you had Rorke's Drift to show what volley fire and good leadership could do for you ...

Colour Sergeant Bourne: It's a miracle.

Lieutenant John Chard: If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle.

Colour Sergeant Bourne: And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind.

[laplata]

What a movie!

[Mr Rogers]

I didn’t know the Zulus had repeating rifles. And Custer didn’t have any walls.

[LS]

Best war movie ever made.

When Caine, given the order to fire, takes time to wipe his brow, “At 100 yards, volley fire, present . . . .”