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Most people are aware of the heroic defence fought at Rorke's Drift during the Zulu Wars.  The battle was the subject of the almotst factually correct film Zulu, as I found when I first read "The Washing of the Spears: Rise and Fall of the Great Zulu Nation", of which the defence at Rorke's Drift is just a small part of one of best books on the subject of the Zulu Wars ever.

Now take a another look at the image heading this article and increase it's size to view the details contained within this historically correct painting, called "Defense of Rorke's Drift" by Adolph Alphonse de Neuvile that was painted in 1880.

In the painting you see the evacuation of the burning hospital, the beginning of the building of the biscuit box defence wall.  In the centre you see depicted the two officers, Chard and Bromhead who commanded the 80 British Soldiers who were holding back at least 4,000 Zulu warriors.

In the foreground, Surgeon Reynolds is bandaging Commissary Dalton's wounds whilst the dog Pip also plays his part in the battle.

Now I want to draw your attention to two characters on the right of the painting.  Shamefully I regret to say that I cannot recall the name of the trooper from the 24th Regiment of Foot(The South Wales Borderers), who although wounded crawls behind the firing line passing ammunition to his comrades but I do know that the gentleman to his left also passing out amunition was the Reverend George "Ammunition" Smith.  Now that is my kind of clergyman and we will return to the Reverend Smith later in the article.

Now, just prior to the Defence of Rorke's Drift, the British Army had suffered one of the worst defeats a modern Army could suffer at the hands of an enemy armed mainly with spears.

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At the Battle of Isandlwana, also described in detail in the book "Washing of the Spears" the British forces of 1,700 men, although surrounded by 20,000 brave Zulu warriors were holding the centre with hardened combat experienced troops of the South Wales Borderers armed with state of the art Martin-Henry breech loading rifles.

The right flank, although stoutly defended by Durnford's Auxiliaries, who were armed with smaller calibre carbines, were forced to withdraw to the camp when they were unable to locate their own personal ammunition wagon.

Durnford’s force was critically short of ammunition and retired on the camp. The British line was in danger of being outflanked and Pullein ordered the “retire” to be sounded and so the British troops fell back on the camp. The N.N.C. broke ranks and fled and the Natal Native Horse also galloped away – they had fought well but had no more ammunition and could do nothing.

At the same time, the regular soldiers holding the centre were also forced to retire due to ammunition shortages and with the lines broken the 20,000 Zulu were soon close enough for hand to hand combat. 

In the camp ammunition gave out and organised resistance was at an end by 2 p.m., although some isolated groups fought on until late afternoon. Probably the last group to die was Younghusband’s company that had held out on the plateau of Isandlwana hill.

British Soldiers, trained in the use of the famous "lunger" bayonets, whilst superior for one on one hand to hand combat were no match against several assegai short stabbing spears.  The army was massacred and the bodies of the dead mutilated along with two young drummer boys being mutilated before being killed.

Now you might ask, what has the defeat of a British Army in South Africa in 1879 got to do with the British National Party in 2010?  Well simple really.  Ammunition.  Without ammunition our men were defeated at Islandlwana.  Without ammunition, the British National Party will be defeated and forced to fight a guerilla type war.  It really is as simple as that.

And the ammunition that the British National Party uses is money.  Without the ammunition of money it cannot function fully.  It pays for offices, it pays for petrol, it pays for leaflets, it pays for adverts, it pays for equipment and it is needed to feed some of our key people.  Without the ammunition of money, the party would be doomed.  Why else do you think The Establishment are always so keen to draw us into legal battles that sucks up our funds - to deprive us of ammunition.

After the Battle of Isandlwana, 400,000 rounds of ammunition was taken from the centre of the camp by the Zulus.  If that ammunition had been send to the troops earlier in the Battle, than I would not be writing this article now.  There would have been no defeat.

So if you have any ammunition that you can spare then please donate it to the British National Party today.  Because if the British National Party fails through lack of ammunition(money) then we lose our entire country not just a battle, so please be the BNP's Reverend Smith and pass the ammunition I beg you.

If you have any cartridges left over, after donating to the BNP, then throw some this way, for the Green Arrow Site that is holding the right flank is also hard pushed.