I was recently sent this link to an article: https://www.lucilledavie.co.za/single-post/2020/01/15/Boers-thrash-Brits-in-Battle-of-Nooitgedacht With mind-numbing predictablity, the defeat – just like each and every other British reverse –...
Today marks the 120th anniversary of one of the bloodiest actions of the war – the Battle of Spion Kop. Churchill, who was there, declared the scene on top of the hill to have been ‘an acre of massacre’ and it would be hard to...
A knowledgeable enthusiast on the Boer War recently commented on one of my blog articles, a posting in which I mentioned the sheer lunacy of Kruger et al opting to attack the British Empire. His remarks basically suggested that, by my describing...
I was recently invited to this talk: As it was to be presented by one of the leading Defenders of the Myth™, I was far from enthusiastic to begin with, and even less so when I read the little write up above. If nothing else, however, this advert...
In a recent Quora answer, someone bizarrely announced that total Boer forces during the war were just 43,000. As this is utter rubbish, I responded, informing this person that the real figure was actually about double that. He then replied to me...
On 1 January 1900, and after six weeks of siege, the tiny desert outpost of Kuruman finally surrendered to the invading Boers. Needless to say, certain History Professors who like to pretend that the poor old Boers were ‘forced’ to invade British...
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