Last Stands

Lucky expeditions, comprehensive defeats, & the birth of legends

I'm a big fan of Tanya Huff's Confederation series. The Better Part of Valor is one of the few books that my husband and I both enjoy, and I was delighted to learn that it was based on real history — specifically, the Battle of Rorke's Drift. But history has lots of "impossible defense" type "last stands," so I went looking for more examples to use as i…