The parallels between the Confederate ‘Lost Cause’ movement of the American Civil War, and the myths that – even today – surround the Boer War are remarkable. For those who are unaware, the Lost Cause of the Confederacy is not based on historical...
There is a passionately-held belief among a certain section of South Africans that the Boers were amazing guerrilla fighters, and that they ran rings round the ‘blundering Brits’, leading them a merry dance in one of the longest, most hard-fought...
Cecil John Rhodes was born in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire. The son of a Vicar, Rhodes was sent to South Africa as a 17 year old, in the belief that it would be beneficial for his health. Though today’s woke fanatics frantically try to...
I recently read the following statement: Battles aren’t decided on a spreadsheet of losses, they’re determined by which side achieved its objectives, and which didn’t — a lesson it would be incumbent on Americans to remember, as...
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