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On this day in 1900… Boer surrender at the Brandwater Basin

“All our forces are here in the mountains now, and we can hold out for years. There are only two passes; they are strongly held, and the enemy will never get through them”[i] Back in 2013 I helped organize an off-roading competition in the...

July 30, 2018 Bulldog 9 Comments

Fame at last – ‘The If Man’ makes it into the Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5972809/Why-Rudyard-Kiplings-classic-poem-rightly-revered-Serena-Williams.html    

July 24, 2018 Bulldog 0 Comments

‘We Rest Here Content’ – book review

  One of the most remarkable regiments of the Boer War was the Imperial Light Horse. Raised just prior to the Boer invasions, the ILH was formed largely from the ex-Johannesburg uitlanders – the (mainly) English-speaking men who had built...

July 12, 2018 Bulldog 0 Comments

‘Hell Fire Jack’ Dartnell, Natal Police

                ‘A heavily built man of irrepressible ebullience with a smart Imperial beard’ Though their intentions had been obvious for months, the Boer invasion of Natal in October 1899 nevertheless caught the British off-balance and...

July 1, 2018 Bulldog 4 Comments

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