Further to my recent post, in which I showed that Great Britain was in no way, shape or form facing ‘financial ruin’ during the Boer War, I came across this chart: They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and I think this...
A friend recommended that I read this article: https://martinplaut.com/2020/07/29/a-history-more-complicated-how-black-south-africans-lost-the-vote/ I enjoyed the article and thought that he made some valid and interesting points. It is therefore...
Some of the characters who lurk about on Quora are always good for a laugh, and a recent question provided a bit of amusement: Why did the British Empire fight the Boer War to then almost immediately grant the Boers self-government after its...
On this day in 1900, forces under De la Rey attempted to take a small Imperial outpost at Elands River, in the Magaliesberg area to the west of Johannesburg. This was the opening move in a siege which lasted 12 days, and which saw the Imperial...
After the bulk of the remaining Orange Free State forces had retreated into the Brand Water Basin, General Hunter attempted to break into their supposed mountain-fastness in a series of actions in late July 1900. The twin battles of...
http://www.theheritageportal.co.za/article/anglo-boer-war-stereo-photographs-produced-underwood-underwood
The only good thing to come out of the whole scamdemic / lockdown farce of the last few months is that, after 2 years of drawing maps, I have signed off on the final edit of my Boer War Atlas. It is now with the publisher and should be hitting...
The farcical rush to destroy British history continues apace, and I was amused by this article in the Islington Tribune (Christ alone knows what sort of ghastly muesli-eating Reds buy that rag)...
As China and India lurch towards a potential war, British minds are focused on more pressing issues such as banning rugby fans from singing ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’. Though this has been the unofficial England rugby anthem for more...
I have been watching with a mixture of disgust and anger as mobs of anarchist scum rampage through Britain’s cities, indulging in a looting and rioting binge ostensibly to ‘protest’ against the death of someone thousands of miles away (and who’s...
11 June 1940 marked the start of the Siege of Malta, the longest siege in British military history. For the next two-and-a-half years, the tiny island would be hammered by more than 3,000 raids by Italian and German aircraft, but the Maltese...
The myths which are made-up to maintain the fiction that the Boers were in the innocent victims in the Boer War never cease to amuse me. I was recently told by someone on Quora that Kruger’s decision to pick a fight with the British Empire wasn’t...
Chris Ash © 2017 All Rights Reserved
