20209 - "Helping my Comrade" Two British of the 24th Foot W. Britain Jack Tars & Leathernecks A ‘Legate’ was a very

A ‘Legate’ was a very senior official who acted as a deputy general to governors of provinces conquered by Ancient Rome in the 1st and 2nd Centuries BC

Because their opponents were less concerned about the unwritten rules of “civilized” war

and a like mind as to how a war on the frontier should be run

This figure has Dickinson firing his old blunderbuss at the advancing Mexicans

and violent Confederate attack

20209 - "Helping my Comrade" Two British of the 24th Foot W. Britain Jack Tars & Leathernecks A ‘Legate’ was a veryHelping my Comrade Two British of the 24th Foot At about 4: 20 p. m., the battle of Rorkes Drift had begun. By 2: 00 a. m. the next day the majority of the fighting had ended harassing fire from the Zulu rifles lasted until 4: 00 a. m. Some 11 hours later, it was finally over. The garrison had sustained 14 dead, two more were mortally wounded and eight more were seriously wounded. Every man had some kind of wound from minor cuts and abrasions to deep,