True Believers love to claim that the Boers ‘taught’ the British army pretty much everything, including the wearing of khaki, rather than red. Like pretty much everything else they say, this is nonsense: not only did the Boers...
Ultimately, seven VCs were awarded for heroism at Colenso, all in recognition of extreme valour connected to the attempts to recover the guns of the 14th and 66th Batteries. The citation of Captain Reed (Later, Major General Hamilton Lyster Reed...
125 years ago today, Buller attempted to break through the Boer positions at Colenso, and raise the Siege of Ladysmith. Pretty much everything that could go wrong, did go wrong, and Buller called off the attempt after just a few hours. Most...
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