Editing Battle of Rorke's Drift (section)

===Cattle kraal and bastion===
The evacuation of the burning hospital completed the shortening of the perimeter. As night fell, the Zulu attacks grew stronger. The cattle [[kraal]] came under renewed assault and was evacuated by 10:00&nbsp;p.m., leaving the remaining men in a small bastion around the storehouse: the British troops had withdrawn to the centre of the station, where a final defence had been hastily built.<ref name="Army Museum - Rorke's Drift"/> Throughout the night, the Zulus kept up a constant assault against the British positions; Zulu attacks began to slacken only after midnight, ending by 2:00&nbsp;a.m., and replaced by harassing fire from Zulu firearms until 4:00&nbsp;a.m.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}

By that time, the garrison had sustained 14 dead. Two more were mortally wounded and eight more – including Dalton – were seriously wounded. Almost every man had some kind of wound. They were all exhausted, having fought for the better part of 10 hours and were running low on ammunition. Of 20,000 rounds in reserve at the mission, only 900 remained.<ref>Machanik, Major (Dr) Felix. ''Military History Journal'', V.4, No.6, ''Firepower and Firearms in the Zulu War of 1879'', South African Military History Society, {{ISSN|0026-4016}}, Dec. 1979.</ref>