Medals For The British Soldiers Who Held Off The Taliban's Zulu-Style Attack

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Medal For The Hero Of Rorke's Drift Revisited In Afghanistan Who Held Off The Taliban's Zulu-Style Attack -- The Daily Mail

For the soldiers stationed at Crossing Point One in the badlands of Afghanistan it was like something out of Zulu.

Hardcore Taliban fighters launched wave after wave of suicidal onslaughts as they tried to get into the isolated British base in northern Nad'e Ali.

The combat was so fierce that soldiers were ordered to fix bayonets as the insurgents pushed to within just 30 metres of the tiny compound's mud walls.

Had the patrol base been over-run, it would have been a catastrophic defeat that could have threatened the UK mission in central Helmand.

Zulu, which starred Michael Caine and was released in 1964, tells the story of the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War.

But at the end of six weeks of attacks, the soldiers of 5 Platoon, No 2 Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards had killed at least 84 of the enemy while barely suffering an injury themselves.

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My Comment: "Captain Kinetic" .... what a nickname for a soldier.