Lieutenant John Chard: What's our strength? Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Seven officers including surgeon, commissaries and so on; Adendorff now I suppose; wounded and sick 36, fit for duty 97 and about 40 native levies. Not much of an army for you.
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Posts : 8374 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 75 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Battlefields visit Tue Feb 21, 2017 11:44 am
90th Take some wet weather gear Gary. It took me 5 hours today to get from RD to the Airport, normally 3. The weather is really bad, heavy rains, winds and mist, really thick mist. All the rivers are flowing, the Buffalo is close to flooding in a number of places. The Ngwebini has burst its banks behind Mabaso and the culvert on the iSandlwana road is flooding by around 200mm. Barry Those stanchions don't exist anymore. Im going to post a couple of picks of an MH for you and possibly Neil to look at, the safety on the side is a strange shape. Steve Ive got all the picks you were looking for from the SW hills. Frederic It was a resounding success. Julian Some of the points that have been discussed over the last few months have been delved into such as the members of the Adams family at iSandlwana etc.
Shall start posting in a couple of days.
Cheers
90th
Posts : 10621 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 66 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Battlefields visit Tue Feb 21, 2017 12:56 pm
Thanks Frank , so the drought has broken ? . It's 5 weeks before I get there . Cheers 90th
Frank Allewell
Posts : 8374 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 75 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: Battlefields visit Tue Feb 21, 2017 1:29 pm
It will be perfect conditions when you do. Right now, best place ive been since sunday was draped over the bar at RD hotel with Charles and Paul.
barry
Posts : 947 Join date : 2011-10-21 Location : Algoa Bay
Subject: Visit to Isandlwana Tue Feb 21, 2017 2:49 pm
Hi Frank, Thanks for looking. I last saw them there at least 4 decades ago. I am sure that a wee dram or two of anti-cyclone elixir, taken hourly, helped you to get you through the week. Joking aside, what you saw in the weather was only the peripheral stuff. Inhambane province, over the border, around Massinga, had 20,000 homes destroyed and much infrastructural damage. There were 7 known fatalities. The season is not yet over, so perhaps the big one is still coming. Gary may just get it.
regards
barry
rusteze
Posts : 2871 Join date : 2010-06-02
Subject: Re: Battlefields visit Tue Feb 21, 2017 3:26 pm
Fully expected you would camp out with just a blanket to get an authentic feel for 1879. Looking forward to the pics.
Steve
Frank Allewell
Posts : 8374 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 75 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: Battlefields visit Tue Feb 21, 2017 3:29 pm
Barry What is there is a relic from the movie, its a railway line used for the pont marked 1863. But its down stream the other side of Shiyane.
ymob
Posts : 2268 Join date : 2010-10-22 Location : France
Subject: Re: Battlefields visit Tue Feb 21, 2017 8:05 pm
Bonjour Frank, Great new! Happy for you and very, very impatient to read your comments! Very well done, Camarade. Amitié Frédéric
24th foot
Posts : 43 Join date : 2012-06-27 Age : 68 Location : Selsdon Surrey
Subject: Re: Battlefields visit Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:30 pm
Thanks for opening the innings Frank. Delighted to hear it will be perfect in 5 weeks, the middle order will make the most of it.
Best wishes
Lindsay
90th
Posts : 10621 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 66 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Battlefields visit Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:59 pm
Hhahahahaha Thanks Barry , just what I need ....a Cyclone ! . May have to get a move on quickly ....quicklier ! I spoke to the Lodge last night , seems its rain up to sunday ! 90th
Frank Allewell
Posts : 8374 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 75 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: Battlefields visit Wed Feb 22, 2017 2:00 pm
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