“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...

  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...