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Alexandre Jean Noël Gale at Sea
 
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Marcus Larson Dramatic river landscape with figures and mills
 
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Adolphe Yvon Marshall Ney supporting the Rear Guard During the Retreat from Moscow
 
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Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville The defence of Rorke's Drift 1879

The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was a battle in the Anglo-Zulu War. The defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenant John Chard of the Royal Engineers, immediately followed the British Army's defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, and continued into the following day, 23 January.

Just over 150 British and colonial troops successfully defended the garrison against an intense assault by 3,000 to 4,000 Zulu warriors. The massive, but piecemeal, Zulu attacks on Rorke's Drift came very close to defeating the tiny garrison but were ultimately repelled.

Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders, along with a number of other decorations and honours.
 
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Vilhelm Kyhn Jutland woodlands near Silkeborg
 
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Hermann Otto Hoyer In The Beginning There Was The Word
 
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Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek At the Edge of a Forest
 
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Emile Auguste-Hublin Le chemin du Marché, Finistère
 
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Herman Af Sillén Upprört hav med fiskeskutor (Agitated Sea)
 
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John Pettie A Musician’s Reverie
 
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Francesco Giuseppe Casanova Cavalry Battle between Christian and Turkish Army
 
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