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Lieutenants Melvill and Coghill died in a gallant attempt to save the Queen’s colours of their regiment, earning the first posthumous Victoria Crosses in history. A few survivors struggled back into Natal, crossing the mighty Buffalo River at the Fugitives’ Drift. Part of his central column had been almost annihilated at Isandlwana, in a battle rated as one of the greatest military disasters in British colonial history. Within days Lord Chelmsford’s invasion was in jeopardy. The central of the three major invading columns forded the Buffalo River at Rorke’s Drift.
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