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The Great Boer War (1899 - 1902) more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats of personal heroism, unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humor and tragedy. Byron Farwell traces the wars origins, the slow mounting of the British efforts to overthrow the Afrikaners, the bungling and bickering of the British command, the remarkable series of bloody battles that almost consistently ended in victory for the Boers over the much more numerous British forces, political developments in London and Pretoria, the sieges of Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberley, the concentration camps into which Boer families were herded and the exhausting guerrilla warfare of the last few years when the Boer armies were finally driven from the field.
The Great Boer War is a definitive history of a dramatic conflict by a master story teller and historian. Byron Farwell served as an officer in the North African and Italian campaigns in World War II and also in the Korean War. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1964, and is the author of Queen Victorias Little Wars, also published by Pen & Sword.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I wish to express my gratitude to the many people in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the United States who have assisted me in my research. Three South Africans have been particularly helpful, devoting much time and taking great pains to provide me with new material: George Aschman, former editor of the Cape Times ; Maria Bosman, daughter of Captain J. W. Koos Bosman of the Transvaal Staatsartillerie; and G. E. Steyn, daughter of President M. T. Steyn.

Among others who have provided me with valuable material, I would like to express my gratitude to Stanley Beadle, G. M. Botha, Frank R. Bradlow, J. H. Breytenbach, Mrs. J. Canning, W. H. Carter, Anthony de Crespigny, Lillian du Preez, Austin M. Fraser, Etrechia Fichardt, H. J. Graham-Wolfaard, Jock Hasswell, Doris Heberden, Carl Hegardt, David Hillhouse, Albert Hollingsworth, Adelaide Jacobs, Mrs. G. V. Kearns, V. Leibbrandt, Petrovna Metelerkamp, C. E. More, Woody Nel, L. Oxenham, William la Roux, J. H. Schoeman, J. J. J. Scholtz, C. E. Sherwood, George and Lillian Tatham, E. S. Thompson, Casper Venter, Rolf Wik-lund, Buller Willis, and W. E. Wright.

I owe a special debt of gratitude to my wife, Ruth, who devoted nearly a thousand hours to making this a better book. I am deeply indebted to her for her sound advice, penetrating insights, keen criticism, and sustained enthusiasm.

Other books by Byron Farwell

The Man Who Presumed: A Biography of Stanley
Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton
Prisoners of the Mahdi
Queen Victorias Little Wars

NOTES

Only the shortened form of the reference is given here; a complete description of the works cited is given in the bibliography.

Chapter 1. The Birth of a People

Quoted in Rosenthal, Stars and Stripes in Africa, p. 86.

Reitz, No Outspan, p. 21.

Chapter 2. Voortrekkers and Their Republics

Haggard, The Last Boer War, p. 49.

Chapter 3. The First Anglo-Boer War

Quoted in Carter, A Narrative of the Boer War, p. 127.

Quoted in Fitzpatrick, The Transvaal from Within, p. 44 n . This book, written by an uitlander, has been called the Uncle Toms Cabin of the First Anglo-Boer War.

Doyle, The Great Boer War, 3rd impression, pp. 20, 22.

Carter, A Narrative of the Boer War, pp. 492f.

Ibid., p. 501.

Chapter 4. The Jameson Raid

Warner, The Geography of British South Africa, pp. 177f.

Quoted in Nutting, Scramble for Africa, p. 340.

Quoted in Meintjes, President Steyn, p. 61.

Chapter 5. Moving Towards War

Words spoken to Graham Bower, imperial secretary at the Cape. Quoted in Nutting, Scramble for Africa, p. 299.

Quoted in Symons, Bullers Campaigns, p. 55.

The Times History, V. 1, p. 183.

Chapter 6. Eve of War

All of the quotations here are taken from the British Government Blue Book, Cd 1792.

The Times History, V. 1, p. 13.

Blue Book, Cd 1792, p. 44.

Mahan, The Story of the War in South Africa, pp. 203f.

Belmont, Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis, p. 289.

Steevens, From Cape Town to Ladysmith, p. 21.

Quoted in Nutting, Scramble for Africa, p. 414.

Ibid., p. 423.

Chapter 7. War Begins

Quoted in May, The Music of the Guns, pp. 6f.

Ibid., p. 17.

Quoted in Jones, Lloyd George, p. 26.

Blunt, My Diaries.

Sinclair-Stevenson, The Gordon Highlanders, p. 74.

Quoted in Cornwallis-West, Edwardian Hey-Days.

Mackinnon, The Journal of the C.I.V. in South Africa, pp. 3f.

Pearsons Illustrated War News, 25 November 1899.

Morning Post, 27 November 1899.

Souza, No Charge for Delivery, p. 160.

Reitz, Commando, p. 24.

Ibid., p. 26.

Schikkerling, Commando Courageous, p. 10.

Chapter 8. Talana: The First Battle

Quoted in The Times History, V. 2, pp. 164f.

Ibid., pp. 168f.

Chapter 9. Elandslaagte

Sampson and Hamilton, Anti-Commando, p. 117.

Quoted in The Times History, V. 2, p. 193 n .

Quoted in Beck, History of South Africa and the Boer-British War, pp. 403f.

Reitz, Commando, p. 34.

Steevens, From Capetown to Ladysmith, p. 61.

Souza, No Charge for Delivery, p. 116.

Hobson, The War in South Africa, p. 222.

Pearse, Four Months Besieged, p. 75.

Chapter 10. The Battle of Ladysmith

Sampson and Hamilton, Anti-Commando, p. 157.

Reitz, Commando, pp. 32f.

De Wet, Three Years War, p. 25.

Steevens, From Capetown to Ladysmith, pp. 75f.

Ibid., p. 80.

Chapter 11. Buller

Jerrold, Sir Redvers Buller, V.C., p. 234.

Churchill, A Roving Commission, p. 234.

Quoted in Pemberton, Battles of the Boer War, p. 124.

Atkins, The Relief of Ladysmith, pp. 30f.

The Times History, V. 2, p. 285.

The Letters of Queen Victoria , 3rd series, V. 3, p. 416.

Chapter 12. Methuen

Quoted in Meintjes, Sword in the Sand, p. 39.

Quoted in The Times History, V. 2, p. 336.

Jeans, Naval Brigades in the South African War, p. 22.

Quoted in Milne, The Epistles of Atkins, p. 73.

Quoted in Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 1, p. 164.

Souza, No Charge for Delivery, p. 187.

Black and White Budget, 14 April 1900.

Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 1, p. 166.

Chapter 13. Magersfontein

Quoted in Sutherland, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, p. 61.

Quoted in Sinclair-Stevenson, The Gordon Highlanders, p. 76.

Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 1, p. 193.

Barnes, The Great War Trek, pp. 41f.

Doyle, The Great Boer War , 3rd impression, p. 161.

Badenhorst, Tant Alie of Transvaal, p. 95.

Chapter 14. Stormberg Junction

Gatacre, General Gatacre, p. 56.

Steevens, From Capetown to Ladysmith, p. 10.

Quoted in Meintjes, Stormberg, p. 107.

The Official History gives the final figure as 135 killed and wounded and 571 missing.

Quoted in Gatacre, General Gatacre, pp. 235f.

Chapter 15. Before Colenso

Atkins, The Relief of Ladysmith, p. 118.

Butler, Sir Redvers Buller, p. 81.

Quoted in Pemberton, Battles of the Boer War , p. 162.

Atkins, The Relief of Ladysmith, p. 128.

Quoted in Meintjes, General Louis Botha, p. 44.

Quoted in Barnard, General Botha at the Battle of Colenso, Military History Journal, V. 2, No. 1, June 1971.

Chapter 16. Colenso

Blue Book, Cd 1793, p. 341.

Gough, Soldiering On, p. 70.

Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 1, p. 97.

Quoted in Symons, Bullers Campaigns, p. 165.

Quoted in Bryant, Jackets of Green, p. 185 n .

Quoted in Atkins, The Relief of Ladysmith, p. 174.

Quoted in Hamilton, Listening to the Drums, p. 32.

Blue Book, Cd 1792, pp. 341f.

Dickson, The Biograph in Battle, p. 83.

Black and White Budget, 10 March 1900, 21 April 1900.

Quoted in Butler, Sir Redvers Buller, p. 71.

Quoted in The Times History, V. 2, p. 461.

Quoted in Pemberton, Battles of the Boer War , pp. 147f.

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