The Boer Fight for Freedom (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Michael Davitt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331025826 ISBN 13 : 9781331025825

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover the foreign volunteers who fought beside the Boers in the South African War and shaped its human story.

This nonfiction work recounts how groups from Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, and America joined the Transvaal struggle, offering front-line courage, diverse motives, and powerful portraits of loyalty under fire. It weaves personal anecdotes with broader context, showing how international support influenced battles around Pretoria and beyond.

• Learn about Blake's Irish Brigade and the Chicago volunteers, their leaders, and the roles they played in key rear-guard actions.
• Meet the Hollander Corps, Zarps, and German volunteers, and see how language and culture intersected with military effort.
• Understand the range of contributions, from frontline fighting to ambulance service and non-combat duties.
• glimpse the human side of war, including moments of humor, sacrifice, and camaraderie under pressure.

Ideal for readers of military history and those curious about the international dimensions of the Boer War.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Boer Fight for Freedom

After resigning membership of the British House of Commons in October, 1899, as a personal and political protest against a war which I believed to be the greatest infamy of the nineteenth century, I proceeded, a short time afterwards, to the Transvaal to see and learn more about the little nation against whose liberty and land this crime had been planned and executed.

This book embodies the facts and information which I obtained in my intercourse with the leaders and people of both Republics. It also contains the impressions which followed from a few months' close contact with them during their unparalleled struggle to retain their independence.

I owe the expression of grateful acknowledgments for the facilities given and the assistance willingly tendered to me by members of both governments during my stay in the Transvaal and Orange Free State, and to numerous officers and officials who supplied me with authentic details of the earlier battles of the campaign in Natal and on the western borderland.

My thanks are specially due to Dr. Reitz, State Secretary of the S. A. R.; Attorney-General (now Commandant) Smuts; and to Mr. Piet Grobler, also of the Administration. To Commandant-General Louis Botha, his military secretary Adjutant Sandberg, Adjutant Robert Emmet, Field Cornet Cherrie Emmet, General De la Rey, General Tobias Smuts, Colonel Trichardt (head of the Transvaal artillery), Colonel Blake, the Hollander officers in charge of the English prisoners at Pretoria, the Landrosts of Pretoria and Johannesburg, and to the editors and proprietors of the "Volksstem" and of the "Standard and Diggers' News."

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331025826
• ISBN 13: 9781331025825
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 621
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