Richard Steyn is at pains to claim his biography about Milner was not written to continue the vilification of the man, and I do not doubt that he set out with honourable intentions. I must admit, however, that I feared the worst when I read, on...
This is the sort of thing that True Believers like to send one another: Needless to say, none of this utter nonsense is referenced, and there is zero evidence that either quote is genuine. Given that Montgomery made his name in the North African...
After a couple of years of work, The Boer War Atlas is about to hit the shelves: Working from modern-day maps to ensure topographical accuracy, the Atlas covers pretty much every significant action in both the conventional and guerrilla phases of...
I came across this online article recently: https://www.anglotopia.net/british-history/great-events-british-history-bitter-legacy-british-imperialism-boer-wars/ As the site where it comes from claims to be one for people who ‘love...
In the early hours of the 22nd of June 1941, the German Ambassador to the USSR, Friedrich-Werner von der Schulenberg, explained ‘with the deepest regret’ that his nation had been left with no choice but to invade the Soviet Union in response to...
As much as it pains me to say it, the Apartheid regime propagandists, modern-day fanatical Defenders of the Myth, and other assorted ‘useful idiots’, really have done an amazing job of entrenching their utterly false version of the Boer War deep...
Bruce Gilley is one of the few academics today who are prepared to state the truth about Colonialism. This article is especially well worth reading: A big dose of colonialism is needed to fix Yemen
Afrikanderdom has awakened to a sense of earnestness which we have not observed since the heroic war of liberty in 1881. From the Limpopo, as far as Capetown, the second Majuba has given birth to a new inspiration and a new movement...
Continuing the ‘methods of Bar-Boer-ism’ theme, here are some diary extracts from the Rev. Gerard Bailey, Anglican Vicar of Dundee, written after his parish was over-run, annexed and thoroughly looted by the ‘noble’ Boers...
Following on from the article on the 27th of August, here are some photos taken at Bergendal.
When conversation turns to the Boer War, I have lost count of the times I have been assured – usually by a drunk in some pub in some little South African dorp – that ‘the Boers won every battle in the war’. This, or the equally nonsensical claim...
By early June 1900, Lord Roberts’ forces had captured Pretoria and, for a brief moment, an end to the Boer War seemed likely. At the head of around 30,000 troops, Roberts had resumed his advance from Bloemfontein on the 2nd of May, capturing...
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