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Podcast: The Danger Zone (DZ)
Episode: DZ Season 035 Part 01. Australia's First Battle Elands River 4-16 August 1900. First and Final Part.
Description: If you’ve ever seen the movie “Zulu” with Michael Caine you’ve seen the story about how a handful of British soldiers stood up against a large army of Zulu warriors defending a place called Rorke’s Drift. If you’ve ever heard of Breaker Morant, or seen the movie of the same name, you’ve seen a movie about the Boer War which was fought in South Africa in 1900. It’s not a war that most people have heard of. It was the first war where a significant number of soldiers from the different states of Australia – Australia hadn’t yet been fe...