Today marks the hundredth anniversary of the end of the Polish-Soviet War – a war even less understood, perhaps, than the Boer War. There was an excellent article by Danial Hannan in the Sunday Telegraph, which I thought worth sharing:Few...
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...
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