How did the wars in South African shake British prestige so badly and cause a major re-evaluation of military tactics in the years before World War One? These are wars of many names. For the British ...
LONDON TIMES -- NEW YORK TIMES Special Cablegram. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The ...
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It was a period of calm, even though the British felt obliged to send us a dozen shells or so every day. Yet that did not worry us much. We had become thoroughly accustomed to the shelling and stopped ...
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The next day we got to Viljoen’s [farm]. All the Boers are still in laager; they have been in laager a long time. They dare ...
In January 1900, a young Russian officer, Yevgeny Avgustus, ‘galvanised by the daring of the Boers to take on imperial Britain’, set off to fight in the Second Boer War. A Russian on Commando is his ...
After the Anglo-Boer War, there were many stories of what had transpired and wrongful deaths. One of the latter was Field Cornet Salmon van As. He was a member of the Heidelberg Commando during the ...
The Boer 'commando' system evolved from the early defence system at the Cape. Each district was divided into three wards or more, with a field cornet for each ward and a commandant taking military ...
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