Chard rode down to the drift itself where the engineer's camp was located.

Late on the evening of 21 January, Durnford was ordered to Isandlwana, as was a small detachment of No. 5 Field Company, Royal Engineers, commanded by Lieutenant John Chard, which had arrived on the 19th to repair the pontoons which bridged the Buffalo.

Upon receiving news of Isandhlwana from the Natal Contingent Ardenoff and that an army of 4000 Zulu Warriors are advancing their way, Lieutenant John Chard ( Stanley Baker ) of the Royal Engineers assumes command of the small British detachment, being senior by virtue of his commission date to Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead ( Michael Caine ), who, as an infantry officer, is rather put out to find himself subordinate to an engineer.

The defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenant John Chard of the Royal Engineers, immediately followed the British Army's defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, and continued into the following day, 23 January.

Among wine connoisseurs ( and other groups ), for example, Cabernet Sauvignon is often known as " Cab Sav ," Chardonnay as " Chard " and so on ; this means that naming the different wines expends less superfluous effort ; it also helps to indicate the user's familiarity with wine.

Somers left three volunteers – Carter, Chard and Waters – behind on Bermuda ( two when the Deliverance and Patience had departed, and the third following the Patience's return ) to maintain the claim of the island for the England, leaving the Virginia Company in possession of the island.

In 1760 a coaching inn named The George Hotel was opened on the corner of Lyme Street and Chard Street on the site of an old inn called the Cross Keys that was destroyed by fire in 1759.

Monmouth declared himself King and was crowned in Chard and was the subject of more coronations in Taunton on 20 June 1685, when Taunton Corporation was made to witness the event at swords point outside the White Hart Inn.

The town falls within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Chard Rural District and Ilminster Urban District.

Ilminster used to have a station on the Chard Branch Line but this closed in 1962.

Chard has shiny, green, ribbed leaves, with petioles that range from white to yellow to red, depending on the cultivar.

He died from prostate cancer on 13 March 2007 in a hospice in Chard, Somerset.

Chard is a key point on the Taunton Stop Line, a World War II defensive line.

Chard claims to be the birthplace of powered flight, as it was here in 1848 that the Victorian aeronautical pioneer John Stringfellow ( 1799 – 1883 ) first demonstrated that engine-powered flight was possible through his work on the Aerial Steam Carriage.

Chard was a key point on the Taunton Stop Line, a World War II defensive line consisting of pillboxes and anti-tank obstacles, which runs from Axminster north to the Somerset coast near Highbridge.

Passenger trains ceased to operate to Chard Central on 11 September 1962, and private goods traffic on 3 October 1966.

Chard claims to be the birthplace of powered flight, as it was here in 1848 that the Victorian aeronautical pioneer John Stringfellow first demonstrated that engine-powered flight was possible through his work on the Aerial Steam Carriage.

The village falls within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Chard Rural District.

Several pillboxes remain along the Bridgwater & Taunton Canal, one at the old junction with the Chard canal, and one on the embankment of the Chard railway.

30 locks would have been required, on a canal from Stolford on the Bristol Channel to Beer on the English Channel, passing through Creech St Michael, Ilminster and Chard, at an estimated cost of £ 1. 7M.

During the defence of Rorke's Drift on the 22 and 23 January 1879 Bromhead shared the command of the defenders of the post with John Chard, an officer of the Royal Engineers.

Henderson himself reported to Lieutenant Chard that the enemy were close and that " his men would not obey his orders but were going off to Helpmekaar ".

With fewer men, Chard realised the need to modify the defences, and gave orders for the construction of a biscuit-box wall through the middle of the post in order to make possible the abandonment of the hospital side of the station if the need arose.

When Witt becomes drunk and starts demoralising the men with his dire predictions, causing the soldiers of the Natal Native Contingent to desert, Chard orders him to be locked in a supply room.

Tehama ( pronounced Tuh-HAY-muh ) was founded by Robert Hasty Thomes, who arrived in the area that is now Tehama County in the company of Albert G. Toomes, William Chard, and Job Francis Dye.

Eliot himself was amused by Chard Whitlows mournful imitations of his poetic style (" As we get older we do not get any younger ...").

Lawyer Don Finlayson ( Joe Hasham ) was revealed as gay in an early episode and had several boyfriends over the course of the series ; his most enduring relationship was with film buff Dudley Butterfield ( Chard Hayward ).

Bondfield was born in Chard, Somerset, the eleventh child of Anne ( née Taylor ) and William Bondfield, a textiles worker with left-wing views.

During the Second World War he was evacuated and spent nearly five years in Chard, Somerset.

It was formed by the merger of the municipal boroughs of Chard, Yeovil, along with Crewkerne and Ilminster urban districts and the Chard Rural District, Langport Rural District, Wincanton Rural District and Yeovil Rural District.

Before the Norman Conquest, Chard was held by the Bishop of Wells.

In 1685 Chard was one of the towns in which Judge Jeffreys held some of the Bloody Assizes after the failure of the Monmouth Rebellion.

Chard claims to be the birthplace of powered flight as in 1848 John Stringfellow first demonstrated that engine-powered flight was possible.

The Chard Canal was a tub boat canal built between 1835 and 1842.

Chard Branch Line was created in 1860 to connect the two London and South Western Railway and Bristol and Exeter Railway main lines and ran through Chard until 1965.

Before the Norman Conquest Chard was held by the Bishop of Wells.

Chard realized that the north wall, under almost constant Zulu attack, could not be held, and at 6: 00 pm Chard pulled his men back into the yard, abandoning the front two rooms of the hospital in the process.

In the final assault, just as it seems the Zulus will finally overwhelm the tired defenders, the British soldiers fall back to a tiny redoubt that Chard had earlier ordered constructed out of mealie bags.

Colonel John Rouse Merriott Chard VC ( 21 December 1847 – 1 November 1897 ) was a British Army officer who received the Victoria Cross for his role in the defence of Rorke's Drift in 1879.

The Resident Infantry Company ( RIC ) officers bar at Mount Pleasant Airfield Military Base in the Falkland Islands ( UK ) is called the " Chard Bar " and features a mural depicting the scene at Rorke's Drift.

After the battle, some 4, 000 to 5, 000 Zulus headed for Rorke's Drift, a small missionary post garrisoned by a company of the 2 / 24th Foot, native levies and others under the command of Lieutenant Chard, Royal Engineers, the most senior officer of the 24th present being Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead.

* John Rouse Merriott Chard ( 1847 – 1897 ), commander of the British garrison at the Battle of Rorke's Drift

Hatch Beauchamp is the burial place of Colonel John Rouse Merriott Chard, VC, RE ( 21 December 1847-1 November 1897 ) a British soldier who won the Victoria Cross for his role in the defence of Rorke's Drift in 1879.

* John Chard, as a Lieutenant awarded the VC for his part in the defence of Rorke's Drift in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

It includes window dedicated to the memory of Colonel John Rouse Merriott Chard ( 1847 – 1897 ) was an English soldier who won the Victoria Cross for his role in the defence of Rorke's Drift in 1879.