The Last of the 24th


The lone soldier of the 24th, the last man alive, who climbed up to a cave and held the Zulus at bay until evening was depicted in this painting by Richard Thomas Moynan, first exhibited in 1883, in Dublin.


Zulu War


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by Stephen Luscombe