Few remember that the battle of Rorke's Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.
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My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was mad about training for battle, not muddling into disaster.
Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.
When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
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