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To: blam

I don't think I have any Welsh ancestors but have admired them ever since learning the defenders at Roark's Drift were Welsh Engineers.


47 posted on 04/02/2006 8:09:38 PM PDT by yarddog
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48 posted on 04/02/2006 8:34:45 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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Pff. Most of the Rorke's Drift defenders were in fact English.

http://www.rorkesdriftvc.com/myths/myths.htm

Recruiting mainly from Warwickshire. The 24th did not become a Welsh regiment until 1881. So this crap about them singing 'Men of Harlech' in the film 'Zulu!' is rubbish...


52 posted on 07/25/2006 1:01:32 PM PDT by thundrey
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