The VCs of the Battle of Wagon Hill
Fought on this day, back in 1900, the Battle of Wagon Hill saw the Imperial garrison decisively defeat a Boer attempt to storm the perimeter defences to the south of the besieged town of Ladysmith. It was a battle which raged all day, across a ridge line known to the British as Wagon Hill /
What if… the Myths of the Pacific Campaign…
There are, of course, dozens of ludicrous myths about the Boer War. Some favourite old chestnuts are that scheming British capitalists were desperate to steal gold ‘n’ diamonds, the bumbling Tommies marched shoulder-to-shoulder to their deaths wearing red coats, people dying of measles was a ‘genocide’, it was half-a-million Brits versus a handful of bitter-einders,
Eating Bananas in Durban – available now
It has been a few years since I released The Boer War Atlas, but my new book – Eating Bananas in Durban – is finally finished, and available to order: https://igobooks.co.za/product/product-category/eating-bananas-in-durban/ After many years of planning, scheming, and skullduggery, President Kruger launched his invasions of British territory on 11 October 1899, sparking the Boer War
On this day in 1899 – Battle of Colenso… but how could Buller have won?
‘I hope I have practically made it clear that I never attacked on the 15th [December 1899] at all. I have been accused of having done so, and it has been said that every military man condemned the execution of the attack. But I made no attack. I stopped at the very earliest moment in the morning