I was recently made aware that a Defender of Apartheid-era Myth posted this extraordinary claim online: The narrative that the Boer Republics fell into a trap set by the British to dismantle them is not purely a National Party or Afrikaner...
As expected, almost a fortnight later, and still no True Believers have had the courage to accept my previous challenge, and to dispute any of the inconvenient facts I presented in a recent blog article...
Some years ago, I answered a question on Quora, ‘Why were the Boer Wars so brutal?’ My answer was: Brutal compared to what, though? If you mean brutal compared to other guerrilla wars throughout the rest of the 20th Century, then the...
Unfortunately for we Boer War aficionados, the conflict has not really captured the imagination of film-makers over the years. Indeed, there’s only really been one semi-famous film made about it, 1980’s ‘Breaker Morant’. I was watching it again...
This quote perfectly describes the way True Believers choose to perceive the Boer War. Not only is their refusal to acknowledge blatant facts the only way they can keep the Apartheid-era myths staggering on a little longer, but also proves their...
It has been known for a long time that every British Leftist gets issued with one of these, to be played whenever they are feeling out of their depth in a discussion, and seeing their preferred world view exposed as the nonsense it is: It is...
Trying to understand the British army of the Boer War era is not an easy task, but I hope this article will shed a little light on the dauntless ‘Soldiers of the Queen’. Let’s try to unpack the infantry first. Following the Childers Reforms of...
I recently had a rather bizarre discussion on Quora (is there any other sort?), after a gentlemen made this remarkable claim: [in the] Second [Boer] war a good half of all Imperial troops were Rhodesians north and south, Natal Carabiners (sic)...
A friend contacted me the other day to ask, if Kruger was so determined to grab a sea port, why didn’t he invade Portuguese East Africa and snatch Delagoa Bay / Lourenço Marques[1] (modern-day Maputo), rather than attacking the British Empire...
I recently came across this splendid colourised photo, which features members of the multi-national force which was deployed to China in 1900 to suppress the Boxer Rebellion: From left to right, these men represent the contingents of: Great...
It always amuses me that ‘Kruger’s War’ can still enrage the True Believers, so many years after it came out. I was recently made aware that someone had dared to recommend it on a British and Commonwealth Forces Facebook Group: Needless to say...
I have been being entertained by an especially True Believing fanatic on Quora over the last couple of days. Seven years ago, I had answered the question: What led to the Boer war and what was its outcome? Furious at my daring to challenge his...
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