Download or read book Kruger s Gold written by Sidney Allinson and published by Philadelphia : Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boer War - South Africa - 1902 Canadian Lt. Harry Lanyard, British Army, leads a mounted patrol of hard-bitten Colonial troopers into the veld to recover $15-million worth of gold bullion looted by Transvaal President Paul Kruger during the Second Anglo-Boer War. To do it, Lanyard must battle tough burgher commandos, murderous bandits, hostile civilians, and an enemy spy sworn to kill him, while his own men have turned mutinous. He also strives to regain the love of his Boer ex-sweetheart who now is allied with a ruthless Czarist secret agent. Based on many actual events, KRUGER'S GOLD is meticulously researched in historical details. It reveals the horrors of concentration camps and ruthless guerilla fighting, while innocent civilians and black Africans suffer during the "last of the gentlemens' wars".
Download or read book Looted Gold written by Mike Dwight and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looted Gold explodes the myth of the missing Kruger Millions with startling evidence that exposes for the first time the committed plundering of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) by the political elite over a period of years. The disappearance of the paltry amount of gold that left Pretoria in mid-1900 as President Paul Kruger retreated down the railway line towards Portuguese East Africa is placed in a context not considered in over 100 years. That gold has wrongly become known as the missing Kruger Millions. No one will ever be able to establish exactly how much gold and other treasure was siphoned out of the ZAR illegally during the turbulent period leading up to the declaration of war in 1899. Without doubt, the missing treasure amounts to billions of US dollars at today's values. For the first time, Looted Gold lays bare the role played by the Eloff family, key figures in Kruger's extended family. New Zealand combatant Thomas Brown exposed the Eloff complicity in the seizure of illicit gold. His eye witness accounts are included in his unpublished memoirs and in Looted Gold. The diligent gathering of scarce information from numerous sources will leave readers with little doubt that dark forces swirled around the tiny ZAR nation, the impacts of which are still felt to this day. While the unstoppable brute force of British imperialism finally overcame Kruger's oligarchic rule, other countries adopted a less confrontational and far more circuitous approach to entrenching themselves in the ZAR (and later South African) gold industry. Switzerland implemented a clandestine strategy by insinuated seasoned gold experts into the ZAR with a single end game in mind: to set up Switzerland as the world's foremost traders of gold. Read how did they set about achieving this goal? Many highly relevant questions remain unanswered. Secrets abound. What was the value of illicit funds flowing out of the ZAR to secret bank accounts? Was that accumulation of wealth simply for personal gain or were funds channelled into the achievement of political stratagems? Who continues more than a century later to hide the enormous wealth gained by underhand means during Kruger's reign? As late as March 2021 a collection of 910 historical Kruger ponds and half ponds was bought by the South Africa Mint. Will more gold from the Kruger era emerge from hidden vaults in years to come? Who has kept that gold hidden for over a century? The story that unfolds in Looted Gold will provide you with facts that have not been available until now. History is being rewritten. We invite you to read on and draw your own conclusions.
Download or read book Kruger s Gold written by Francois Malan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kruger s Gold written by Paul Webster and published by . This book was released on 1984-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phantom Gold written by James Page and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really happened to the gold that went missing from the mint in Pretoria two years before the end of the Boer War? Did President Paul Kruger remove it ahead of the British occupation?Is it buried somewhere en-route to Mozambique?Pretoria, May 1900British forces are advancing, Johannesburg has fallen and the Boers do not have the troops to prevent Lord Roberts from capturing Pretoria. A decision is taken not to defend Pretoria at all costs and to save her from bombardment. President Kruger however cannot be allowed to be captured nor can the Boers allow the gold from the mint to fall into British hands, for that would surely end the war.President Kruger leaves Pretoria travelling east by train towards Delagoa Bay. He is followed a few days later by Jan Smuts. The burning question is how much gold left with them? Lydenburg, present dayThe discovery of a few Kruger pounds in the town triggers a feverish gold rush.A long forgotten bible with an inscription by President Kruger and instructions for a delivery to General Ben Viljoen, to enable him to continue the war, raises questions.The idyllic life of Rick Carlson and his family is shattered when a gang invades their farm to steal the bible and a drawing thought to be a map to the gold, plunging them in the middle of the frenzy. Rick tries to dispel the myth but secretly believes that he might have stumbled onto clues that will lead to the discovery of the gold.
Download or read book Kruger s Gold written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In January 1903 John Buchan, one of Milner’s Kindergarten, is summoned to a meeting in Johannesburg with Lord Milner and visiting British Secretary of State, Joseph Chamberlain. He is informed that much of the gold that was removed from the State Mint by the Transvaal government, because of advancing British forces, is still in the country. A clue to the location of this hoard of gold, a veldpond, had been found at Pilgrim’s Rest. Buchan is tasked by Chamberlain to find the gold, referred to by all as 'Kruger’s Gold' Buchan heads for Pilgrim’s Rest without delay, by train and on horseback, through the beautiful mountains, forests and waterfalls of the Eastern Transvaal. The resulting tale is one of danger, subterfuge and adventure, cloaked in the utmost secrecy. It is gripping and suspenseful until the very end"--Back cover.
Download or read book The Empire Project written by John Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.
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Download or read book Diamonds Gold and War written by Martin Meredith and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOUTHERN AFRICA was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the region. It culminated in the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and left the Boer republics devastated. In this gripping history of the turbulent years leading up to the founding of the modern state of South Africa in 1910, Martin Meredith portrays the great wealth and raw power, the deceit, corruption, and racism that lay behind Britain's empire-building in southern Africa. Diamonds, Gold, and War is a tale of high adventure, high fi nance, and high politics that also shows the massive impact of white expansion on indigenous African societies. And it explains the rise of the virulent Afrikaner nationalism that eventually took hold, with repercussions lasting nearly a century.
Download or read book The Memoirs of Paul Kruger written by Paul Kruger and published by London : Unwin. This book was released on 1902 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghosts of the Past written by Tony Park and published by Tony Park. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forgotten African war. A missing treasure worth killing for. German South West Africa 1906, Australian horse trader Cyril Blake is executed in cold blood by the Kaiser’s soldiers. Sydney, the present day. Blake’s great-great nephew, recently widowed Nick Eatwell, is approached by South African journalist Susan Vidler who is investigating his ancestor’s mysterious demise. Intrigued and looking for distraction, Nick discovers a long-lost manuscript which tells how Blake stayed in South Africa after serving in the Anglo Boer War and joined the Nama people in their rebellion against the Germans in South West Africa, modern-day Namibia. In Munich, historian Anja Berghoff, researching the origin of the wild ‘ghost’ horses of Namibia, stumbles across intriguing letters from Irish-German spy Claire Martin, with whom Blake had an affair. As Nick and Anja’s paths cross, they find themselves racing through southern Africa and time on the trail of a legend. But they’re not alone. Someone else is chasing these ghosts of the past, looking for clues to a hidden treasure worth killing for. Ghosts of the Past is based on a true story.
Download or read book Lowveld and Kruger Guide written by Jacana Education and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outdoor guide to enhance your Lowveld experience. This guide is loaded with information on the plant and animal life in this region, Kruger and Human History, maps, activity grids and much more.
Download or read book Engineering Nature written by Jessica B. Teisch and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United
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Download or read book Kruger Kommandos Kak written by Chris Ash and published by 30 Degrees South Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But itÕs also one of the least understood conflicts of the era. Over a century of Leftist bleating and insidious, self-serving revisionism, first by Afrikaner nationalists and then by the apartheid regime, has left the layman with a completely skewed view of the war. Incredibly, most people will tell you that the British attacked the Boers to steal their gold, and that when the clueless, red-jacketed Tommies advanced under orders of bumptious, incompetent British generals they were mowed down in their thousands. Others think of the conflict in terms of ÔBritain against South AfricaÕ and many believe that the Boers actually won the war; the marginally more enlightened explain away the Boer defeat by claiming it took millions of British troops to beat them, or that it was only the ÔgenocideÕ of the concentration camps which forced the plucky Boers to throw in the towel. Ê ItÕs all bosh. This book will take everything you thought you ÔknewÕ about the war and turn it on its head. From KrugerÕs expansionist dream of an Afrikaans empire Ôfrom the Zambesi to the CapeÕ, to the murder and devastation wrought on Natal by his invading commandos, to the savage massacres of thousands of blacks committed by the ÔgallantÕ bitter-einders, the reader will have his eyes opened to the brutal realities of the conflict, and be forced to reassess previously held notions of the rights and wrongs of the war. Hard-hitting and uncomfortable reading for those who do not want their bubble of ignorance burst, Kruger, Kommandos & Kak exposes that side of the Boer War which the apartheid propaganda machine didnÕt want you to know about.
Download or read book The Real Kruger and the Transvaal written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greater Kruger The Big Picture written by Heinrich Van den Berg and published by HPH Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
