Painting of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rorke%27s_Drift" class="extiw" title="en:Battle of Rorke's Drift">Battle of Rorke's Drift</a> which took place in Natal during the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879. De Neuville based the painting on eye witness accounts and it depicts several events of the battle occurring at once. Defenders depicted in the painting:
<ul><li>Lieutenant <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/John_Chard" class="mw-redirect" title="John Chard">John Chard</a> (to the right at the barrier in pale breeches with rifle)</li>
<li>Corporal Scammell of the Natal Native Contingent incorrectly shown in the uniform of the 24th or Corporal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Allen_(VC_1879)" class="extiw" title="en:William Allen (VC 1879)">William Allen</a> (handing cartridges to Chard)</li>
<li>Corporal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Schiess" class="extiw" title="en:Ferdinand Schiess">Ferdinand Schiess</a> (wearing a bandoleer and stabbing a Zulu at the barrier with his bayonet)</li>
<li>Chaplain <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smith_(chaplain)" class="extiw" title="en:George Smith (chaplain)">George Smith</a> (bearded man handing out cartridges from a haversack)</li>
<li>Acting Assistant Commissary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Langley_Dalton" class="extiw" title="en:James Langley Dalton">James Dalton</a> (sat in foreground with a wounded shoulder)</li>
<li>Surgeon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Reynolds" class="extiw" title="en:James Henry Reynolds">James Reynolds</a> (attending to Dalton's wound)</li>
<li>Lieutenant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonville_Bromhead" class="extiw" title="en:Gonville Bromhead">Gonville Bromhead</a> (standing in the centre of the painting pointing to his left)</li>
<li>Private <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hitch" class="extiw" title="en:Frederick Hitch">Frederick Hitch</a> (standing behind Bromhead)</li>
<li>Private <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hook_(VC)" class="extiw" title="en:Henry Hook (VC)">Henry Hook</a> (carrying Private John Connolly on his back away from the burning hospital)</li>
<li>Assistant Commissary Walter Dunne (to the left holding a biscuit box)</li></ul>
(Sources: David, Saul [2005] <i>Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879</i> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780141015699" title="Special:BookSources/9780141015699">ISBN 9780141015699</a>; Knight, Ian [1996] <i>Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned Like Rats in a Hole'</i> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781855325067" title="Special:BookSources/9781855325067">ISBN 9781855325067</a>)
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Alphonse_de_Neuville" class="extiw" title="w:en:Alphonse de Neuville"><span title="French painter (1835-1885)">Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville</span></a>
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