At 16.20 hours on Wednesday the 22nd January 1879, when the firsts hot rang out in the Battle of Rorke´s Drift, everything appeared to be stacked against the 144 men (the great majority members of the Imperial British Army), who were defending the position.At the end, this fistful of red jackets managed to with stand the relentless attack of 4.500 brave Zulu warriors for morethan ten hours.