Tag Archives: Earl Kitchener of Khartoum

learning from the best

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Dave

Just to advise that the Nazi version of the death camp, the forced labor camp, did not insidiously arise out of thin air, out of a vacuum. The precedent had already been well established; the mold in large measure a … Continue reading →

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farmville: back to the woods

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Dave

And here, almost at the end of the Boer War, the Boer general Jan Smuts, with his harum-scarum escort of guerrillas, meets his chief opponent, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, after months of hit and run warfare across the immensities of … Continue reading →

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the empire slinks back

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Dave

Such was the spirit of the soldiers of the British Empire going to war against the Boers in the autumn of 1899: cocky after a century of victories, secure in their tribal jokes and customs, confident in their leaders, anxious … Continue reading →

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boer war: two wrongs make a fight

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Dave

Autumn 1899. The Boer farmer-soldiers against a properly fitted out professional army. For the British it was the war that broke the imperial spirit that had served it so admirably. In the end, the British victory over the Boers closely … Continue reading →

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boering through the imperial spirit

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Dave

The Boer War. The war that broke the imperial spirit. In the end, the British victory over the Boers closely resembled defeat. Two colonial competing sides battling each other on alien soil…. The Boers were tight knit, traditionalist, racialist, devout … Continue reading →