I recently had a rather bizarre discussion on Quora (is there any other sort?), after a gentlemen made this remarkable claim: [in the] Second [Boer] war a good half of all Imperial troops were Rhodesians north and south, Natal Carabiners (sic)...
A friend contacted me the other day to ask, if Kruger was so determined to grab a sea port, why didn’t he invade Portuguese East Africa and snatch Delagoa Bay / Lourenço Marques[1] (modern-day Maputo), rather than attacking the British Empire...
I recently came across this splendid colourised photo, which features members of the multi-national force which was deployed to China in 1900 to suppress the Boxer Rebellion: From left to right, these men represent the contingents of: Great...
It always amuses me that ‘Kruger’s War’ can still enrage the True Believers, so many years after it came out. I was recently made aware that someone had dared to recommend it on a British and Commonwealth Forces Facebook Group: Needless to say...
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