It is interesting at the present time to recall the first annexation of the Transvaal by Great Britain in 1877, which led to the Boer War of 1881. The Boers are descended from settlers brought to the Cape by the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century. In 1814 the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 405 wordsLord Major General Sir Horatio Hebert Kitchener late Sirdar of the Egyptian army and Pacha, is the eldest son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Kitchener of the 13th ragoons, and was born in June 1850. He was educated at the Royal Military Academy. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 539 wordsThe career of Piet Cronje has been cut short for some time at least. He and a fleetful are prisoners on the loney island of St. Helena, which is 1,695 miles from Cape Town. Beyond the fact that the Boer hates the sea and everything ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 476 wordsThe following story has just come to hand of Lord Kitchener and shows what he thought of the earlier transport arrangements. He was lunching with a prominent civilian at Capetown. His host inquired, "Well, Lord Kitcher, how do you propose to reorganise ...
Article : 68 wordsGeneral French, who has proved himself one of the most successful leaders of cavalry in the present campaign, was originally intended by his parents for the Navy, and actually served about four years on board a man-of-war. But his natural bent towards a soldier's ...
Article : 274 wordsMajor-General Baden-Powell, the heroic defender of Mafeking, who finds himself at the age of forty-three, the idol of the British Empire, is a Londoner. He was born at 6 Stanhope Street, Hyde Park, on February 22nd, 1857. His father was first Vicar of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 395 wordsThe Right Hon. Major-General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., is the eldest surviving son of the late James Wentworth Duller, M.P., of Dowries, Crediton, Devonshire, and Charlotte, daughter of the late Lord H. Howard, and was born in 1839. He ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 469 wordsAn alphabetical arrangement of Major-General Baden-Powell's attributes:—Active, bold, cautious, determined, energetic, fearless, generous, honest, intrepid, jocund, keen, loyal, merry, naive, obstinate, persistent, quiet, resourceful, steadfast, tactical, unconquerable ...
Article : 52 wordsWhen the German Military Attache, with Sir Redvers Buller was first shown the Boer lines at Colenso, he was perfectly astounded at their strength, and remarked to his conductors that he could not have believed them so perfectly defensible and almost ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 361 wordsIn the year 1885 Lord Roberts issued an order to have the whole equipment of field and mountain batteries in India, including even the wheels and guns themselves painted khaki. This was a striking change from the dark colour they had previously been painted, and ...
Article : 62 wordsLord Roberts, better and more familiarly known as "Bobs," is the son of the late General Sir Abraham Roberts, G.C.B., and of Nora Henrietta, daughter of Major A. Bunbury, of Tipperary. He was born at Cawnpore on September 30, 1832, and was educated at ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 608 wordsThorneycroft's Mounted Infantry distinguished itself at the battle of Spion Kop, when General Woodgate was so severely wounded as to be compelled to leave the field, Lieutenant-Colonel Thorneycroft, in charge of the Mounted Infantry, succeeded to the command ...
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