The title of an article in today’s Sunday Telegraph caught my eye, ‘Kitchener camp refugees remembered’. Interestingly, however, the article was not yet another rehash of the tired old myths about ‘the camps’ of the...
I recently read the following passage, in Captain Sidney Jary’s excellent book, ’18 Platoon’: “It has become the custom for some of our younger military writers to extol the professional ability of the Wehrmacht whilst decrying that of our own...
More excellent stuff from Peter Dickens: The 500,000 British vs. 20,000 Boers myth Of course, the ‘fact’ that it took ‘half a million Brits’ to defeat a ‘handful’ of Boers is just something that everyone...
‘The Transvaal was in no way a democracy. No Catholic or Jew was allowed to vote or hold office. Every Boer was compelled to own a rifle; no non-Boer was allowed to. Johannesburg, with 50,000 mainly uitlander inhabitants, was not even allowed an...
Ignoring the inconvenient fact that they lost the Boer War, those on the lunatic-fringe of Far-Right Afrikanerdom love to claim that their ‘heroes’ were all amazing Generals, and I was recently asked if I bought into the myths around Christiaan...
On the anniversary of the Battle of Wagon Hill, I thought I’d post this link to a blog article I posted on it a few years ago: http://www.chrisash.co.za/2018/01/06/on-this-day-in-1900-the-battle-of-wagon-hill/
‘…when one remembers the condonation upon the part of the British on the use of their own uniforms by the Boers, of the wholesale breaking of paroles, of the continual use of explosive bullets, of the abuse of the pass system and of the red...
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