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Book Britain and the Boers

Download or read book Britain and the Boers written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Author : New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1142 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boer War 1899   1902

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  • Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2014-06-06
  • ISBN : 1472810171
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book The Boer War 1899 1902 written by Gregory Fremont-Barnes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorious in its previous campaigns in Africa against native armies, Britain now confronted an altogether different foe. The Boers proved to be formidable opponents, masterfully compensating for inferior numbers with grim determination, resourcefulness and strong religious faith. Their mobility, expert use of cover, and knowledge of the terrain, in which they employed powerful long-range magazine rifles, gave them initial advantages. By contrast the British suffered from inadequate transport, insufficient mounted troops and poor intelligence. Despite marshalling the immense resources of their empire, the British were to be severely tested in a war which one general described as 'the graveyard of many a soldier's reputation'.

Book Catalogue of the Free Public Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the Free Public Library written by Public Library of New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boer War

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  • Author : Sir Winston S. Churchill
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2013-10-14
  • ISBN : 1472520831
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book The Boer War written by Sir Winston S. Churchill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 11th,1899 long-simmering tensions between Britain and the Boer Republics - the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic - finally erupted into the conflict that would become known as the Second Boer War. Two days after the first shots were fired, a young writer by the name of Winston Churchill set out for South Africa to cover the conflict for the Morning Post. The Boer War brings together the two collections of despatches that Churchill published on the conflict. London to Ladysmith recounts the future Prime Minister's arrival in South Africa and his subsequent capture by and dramatic escape from the Boers, the adventure that first brought the name of Winston Churchill to public attention. Ian Hamilton's March collects Churchill's later despatches as he marched alongside a column of the main British army from Bloemfontein to Pretoria. Published together, these books are a vivid eye-witness account of a landmark period in British Imperial History and an insightful chronicle of a formative experience by Britain's greatest war-time leader.

Book Supplementary Catalogue of the Public Library of New South Wales  Sydney  Reference Department

Download or read book Supplementary Catalogue of the Public Library of New South Wales Sydney Reference Department written by Public Library of New South Wales. Reference Dept and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Boer War

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  • Author : Byron Farwell
  • Publisher : Casemate Publishers
  • Release : 2009-09-19
  • ISBN : 1783830611
  • Pages : 920 pages

Download or read book The Great Boer War written by Byron Farwell and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-19 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the battle for independence from the British Empire in South Africa by “a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars” (Kirkus Reviews). The Great Boer War (1899-1902), more properly known as the Great Anglo-Boer War, was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats of personal heroism, unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humor and tragedy. Byron Farwell traces the war’s origins; the slow mounting of the British efforts to overthrow the Afrikaners; the bungling and bickering of the British command; the remarkable series of bloody battles that almost consistently ended in victory for the Boers over the much more numerous British forces; political developments in London and Pretoria; the sieges of Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberley; the concentration camps into which Boer families were herded; and the exhausting guerrilla warfare of the last few years when the Boer armies were finally driven from the field. The Great Boer War is a definitive history of a dramatic conflict by the author of Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, “a leading popular military historian” (Publishers Weekly).

Book London to Ladysmith

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  • Author : Winston Churchill
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 0486475433
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book London to Ladysmith written by Winston Churchill and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, personal account of the conditions under which the Boer War was fought, this volume contains dispatches the future statesman wrote in 1899 and 1900 as a newspaper correspondent.

Book Reinventing Africa

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  • Author : Annie E. Coombes
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300068900
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Reinventing Africa written by Annie E. Coombes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself--the effects of which are still with us today. Through a series of detailed case studies, Coombes analyzes the popular and scientific knowledge of Africa which shaped a diverse public's perception of that continent: the looting and display of the Benin "bronzes" from Nigeria; ethnographic museums; the mass spectacle of large-scale international and missionary exhibitions and colonial exhibitions such as the "Stanley and African" of 1890; together with the critical reaction to such events in British national newspapers, the radical and humanitarian press and the West African press. Coombes argues that although endlessly reiterated racial stereotypes were disseminated through popular images of all things "African," this was no simple reproduction of imperial ideology. There were a number of different and sometimes conflicting representations of Africa and of what it was to be African--representations that varied according to political, institutional, and disciplinary pressures. The professionalization of anthropology over this period played a crucial role in the popularization of contradictory ideas about African culture to a mass public. Pioneering in its research, this book offers valuable insights for art and design historians, historians of imperialism and anthropology, anthropologists, and museologists.

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Reminiscences of the Anglo Boer War

Download or read book My Reminiscences of the Anglo Boer War written by Ben J. Viljoen and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science  Art  and Finance

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science Art and Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boer War

Download or read book The Boer War written by Thomas Pakenham and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1979, an illustrated narrative of the Boer War, written by the author of SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.

Book Harmsworth History of the World

Download or read book Harmsworth History of the World written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Book A Century of Wrong

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  • Author : Francis William Reitz
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-09-15
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 159 pages

Download or read book A Century of Wrong written by Francis William Reitz and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Century of Wrong" is a historical novel. At the advent of the South African War (Second Anglo-Boer War), Francis William Reitz, in his capacity of State Secretary of the South African Republic, published an overview of Anglo-Boer relations in the nineteenth century in Dutch, under the title "A Century of Wrong". The book was an important propaganda document in the war. Reitz defends the Dutch from what he terms as wrong accusations of Dutch Boer brutality against the natives of the Transvaal Region. He in turn counters with a history of British aggression against the Dutch migrants in the South African Republic.

Book The Life of Henry Hartley Fowler

Download or read book The Life of Henry Hartley Fowler written by Edith Henrietta Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: