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272 HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE1879. Isandhlwana, composed <strong>of</strong> some 900 men,exclusive <strong>of</strong> natives, who ran awayafter <strong>the</strong>first shot, were cut to pieces by a large army <strong>of</strong>Zulus.The details <strong>of</strong> thisterrible disaster, <strong>the</strong> cuttingto pieces <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 24th Regiment, and <strong>the</strong> gallantdefence <strong>of</strong> Rorke's Drift, are well known and neednot be retold here. It was this disaster, as beforementioned, that <strong>ca</strong>used <strong>the</strong> <strong>91st</strong> and many o<strong>the</strong>rregiments to find <strong>the</strong>mselves so quickly broughtto South Afri<strong>ca</strong>.

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