The Boer War: South Africa 1899–1902"The Boer War involved all the peoples of South Africa and many of the people of what is now the Commonwealth as well as volunteers from the USA, Russia and from many European countries. This account offers a straightforward narrative of the war in the words of the men who fought it, revealing the birth of a new form of warfare at the close of the 19th century. Book jacket."--Jacket. |
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advance ammunition arrived artillery attack Australian Barton Battery battle blockhouse Bloemfontein Boer positions Botha Brigade British Buller camp Canadian Cape Colony cavalry CHIMERA OF VICTORY Christiaan De Wet Colenso Colonel column command cover Creusot Cronje cross Deneys Reitz Drift Dundee Durban east Elands Elands River Elandslaagte emplacements farm February fight flank force Fusiliers Gordon Highlanders Guards Gun Hill Hart's Highlanders Imperial Light Horse Imperial Yeomanry Johannesburg Joubert killed Kimberley Kitchener kopje kraal laager Ladysmith Lancers Lieutenant Lieutenant-colonel Light Infantry Mafeking Magersfontein Major-general March Mauser Methuen MFME miles Modder River Mounted Infantry moved Natal Naval night Northamptons officers Orange Free Orange River Paardeberg Platrand pom-pom Pretoria railway Regiment reinforcements ridge rifle road Roberts Royal Rustenburg Scouts shell side soldiers South Africa Spioenkop Spruit station surrender town train Transvaal trenches troops Tugela Veldt wagons wounded yards Yeomanry