Good-bye Dolly Gray: The Story of the Boer WarTaking his title from a British song that bade farewell to an era, Rayner Kruger describes the background, the arms and armies, the campaigns and personalities of the war in which soldiers from across the British Empire marched to a succession of brave defeats at hands of sharpshooting farmers. These were calamitous blows, struck not only at an immense British Army but -- as the old century passed into the new -- at Victorian prestige, assumptions, and complacency. |
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... rifle " had in fact been tried out by the Life Guards two centuries before but not found acceptance , so that the British smooth - bore " Brown Besses " were no match for the Colonists ' Kentucky rifles in the American War of ...
... rifle " had in fact been tried out by the Life Guards two centuries before but not found acceptance , so that the British smooth - bore " Brown Besses " were no match for the Colonists ' Kentucky rifles in the American War of ...
Page 269
... rifles with which they now sallied out , the answer was that the arms they had handed in amid so much rejoicing by the British consisted largely of elephant guns , flint - locks , blunderbusses , and ancient sport- ing pieces . They had ...
... rifles with which they now sallied out , the answer was that the arms they had handed in amid so much rejoicing by the British consisted largely of elephant guns , flint - locks , blunderbusses , and ancient sport- ing pieces . They had ...
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... Rifle Brigade and the Inniskilling Fusiliers advanced into a furious fire from rifles , a pompom and a Maxim , the last soon being blown to bits by shell . Under their commandant , P. Oosthuizen , the Zarps fought against odds of more ...
... Rifle Brigade and the Inniskilling Fusiliers advanced into a furious fire from rifles , a pompom and a Maxim , the last soon being blown to bits by shell . Under their commandant , P. Oosthuizen , the Zarps fought against odds of more ...
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