 The submission was cancelled on 29 January 1880 for absence without leave and theft.The events surrounding the assault on Rorke's Drift were first dramatised by military painters, notably Elizabeth Butler (in "The Defence of Rorke's Drift" (1880)) and Alphonse de Neuville (also titled "The Defence of Rorke's Drift" (1880)).Their work was vastly popular in their day among the citizens of the British empire.