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great gamesman: the spy on scout’s honor
…For the prototype of the modern gamesman-spy, we would have to look back to pre-World War One England and the unlikely figure of Lord Robert Baden-Powell. Baden-Powell, who later founded the international Boy Scout movement, was a spy of such … Continue reading
learning from the best
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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not a race to the exits: nagging misgivings
The War dragged on and a mood of disillusionment set in on both sides. For the Boers, it was the despondency of failure, but even more profound were the cracks in the foundation of what had been bedrock principle for … Continue reading
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boer’n again but not so free
A ruinous price of victory. The British victory over the Boers more closely resembled defeat. It was the war that broke the imperial spirit… From many parts of the world young men volunteered to fight with the Boers: Germans, Frenchmen, … Continue reading
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boer’ing down on fatal doubt
The Boer War. A war that broke the imperial spirit which in the end, the victory of the British more closely resembled defeat. It was a war of striking personalities, forcefully imposed upon events. The story of the Boer War … Continue reading
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boer’ed to death
The Boer War. It was the war that broke the imperial spirit. They got their gold and followed Cecil Rhodes financial intuition, dressed up some moral imperative, but in the end, after one colonial force defeated another on alien soil, … Continue reading
the empire slinks back
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
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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Tagged Breaker Morant movie, Britain Indian Mutiny, Cecil John Rhodes, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, Commandant-General Botha Boer, Crimean War, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, Earl Roberts of Kandahar, General Sir Redvers Buller, Howard C. Hillegas, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Kruger Boer, The Boer War, Winston Churchill Boer War
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