“Zulu Dawn” quotes

“- Lt. Melvill: You didn't really have to choose between your country and the Zulu, did you?
- Lt. Vereker: Um, and a damn close thing it was too.”
James Faulkner - Lt. Melvill
Simon Ward - Lt. Vereker

“I'll get you a medal for modesty, Private Williams, would you like that?”
Bob Hoskins - C.S.M. Williams

“- Col. Hamilton-Brown: My men haven't eaten since yesterday and there won't be any supplies until I get them back to Isandhlwana.
- Lord Chelmsford: Then they can start off now and you can join them when you've eaten.
- Col. Hamilton-Brown: Kind of you, My Lord, but I don't think it would be proper for me to sit at your table, they with their...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nigel Davenport - Col. Hamilton-Brown
Peter O'Toole - Lord Chelmsford

“- Zulu messenger: I bring greetings from your friends the British and from the great Lord Chelmsford.
- Cetshwayo: And what do your masters say?
- Zulu messenger: They are angry and send these demands. They say that you rule in old ways that are wrong; that you kill your people without trial.”
Simon Sabela - Cetshwayo

“Well fought, gentlemen. It's time to save the colours.”

Denholm Elliott - Col. Pulleine

“- Boy Pullen: You are afeared of the Zulus then, Quartermaster?
- Q.S.M. Bloomfield: One Zulu is only one man... and I'm afeared of no one man... but the Zulu, they come in the thousands... like a black wave of death... in the thousands... and them assegais... stabbing!”
Phil Daniels - Boy Pullen
Peter Vaughan - Q.S.M. Bloomfield

“Cetshwayo's Zulu army to disband and the warriors permitted to return to their homes.”

John Mills - Sir Henry Bartle Frere

“- Lord Chelmsford: For a savage, as for a child, chastisement is sometimes a kindness.
- Sir Henry Bartle Frere: Let us hope, General, that this will be the final solution to the Zulu problem.”
Peter O'Toole - Lord Chelmsford
John Mills - Sir Henry Bartle Frere

“We come here by the orders of the Great Queen Victoria, Queen of all Africa.”

James Faulkner - Lt. Melvill

“Excuse me, my Lord, there's something I must convey to you. I rode along the track down to Rorke's Drift. The sky above is red with fire. Your orders my Lord? Do we move to the drift?”

Michael Jayston - Col. Crealock

The Battle of Isandhlwana was recorded in history as the worst defeat ever inflicted on a modern army by native troops. In parliament, upon the downfall of his government, British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, asked the question: "Who are these Zulus, who are these remarkable people who defeat our generals, convert our bishops and who on... (continue)(continue reading)