Even the man who started Wiki now accepts it is hopelessly biased[i], but it is still amusing to see just how abysmal it has become. For example, I found this section on the page about the Siege of Mafeking: ‘For Baden-Powell, and in the British...
Any Quora discussion on the Boer War quickly degenerates into a few idiot True Believers screaming about ‘the camps!’, so it was a pleasant surprise to see an especially stupid one trying a different tactic. When someone pointed out...
Delighted to report that an Ash blog article has been included in the latest copy of the Battlefields region digital magazine, ‘Cannons and Cosmos’: Digital Magazine Here is the direct link to it...
When it comes to those who so passionately defend the Boer War myths, there is an obvious link between these True Believers and the extreme Right of Afrikanerdom. This is hardly surprising, as the myths these types so adore were enthusiastically...
One of the strangest things about True Believers is their inability to understand what the word ‘invasion’ means. For the sake of those who have an English-reading age of less than 5, here is a widely accepted Dictionary definition of the word...
One of the favourite squeals of True Believers is that the Boer War was so extraordinarily long, and so outrageously expensive, that it ‘almost bankrupted the British Empire’. Though shouting things like that makes a certain sort of...
Exactly 125 years ago today, the Boer War started with a republican invasion of the British territories of Natal and the Cape Colony. One is left to wonder if certain people will still be denying this inconvenient reality in another 125 years.
Colouring-in is something that most of us grow-out of by about the age of 5… but not so for a fellow called Tinus Le Roux. He recently produced a book of colourised Boer War photos, and continues to spew these out on his Facebook page. Had he...
I was recently made aware of an especially stupid and ill-considered outburst made on one of the various Boer War Facebook groups. This time, the culprit was a chap called Rohann Schoombie, and he happily leapt online to make a complete and utter...
The Tweebosch Massacre
The Leliefontein Massacre
One of the biggest myths of the Boer War – and a falsehood which is still inexplicably peddled by certain South African History Professors – is that the wicked British were ‘massing on the borders’ of the poor innocent...
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