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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advance ammunition army arrived artillery attack Baden-Powell battle Black Week blockhouse Bloemfontein Boers British brought Buller burghers called camp Cape Town captured cavalry Chamberlain Christian de Wet Colenso Colesburg colonial column command commandos convoy Cronje Cronje's defence east eastern Transvaal Elandslaagte enemy England farm fighting fire flank force Free Staters French front garrison Gatacre Government guerilla guns Hamilton hills horses infantry Johannesburg Joubert Kimberley Kitchener Kitchener's Klerksdorp kopjes Kroonstad laager Ladysmith leaders Lord Louis Botha Lydenburg Mafeking Magersfontein Methuen miles military Milner Modder move Natal Native night officers Orange Paul Kruger peace position President Steyn Pretoria reached reinforcements Reitz retreat Rhodes rifles river Roberts Roberts's rode round Schalk Burger scouts sent side siege Smuts soldiers South Africa Spion Kop strength summit supplies surrender tion troops Tugela Uitlanders Vaal veld Victorian Viljoen wagons western Wet's White wounded