Franci’s Reviews > The War In South Africa > Status Update

DNF @20%.

I just

"Of all these actions there was not one which was more than a skirmish, and had they been followed by a final British victory they would now be hardly remembered. It is the fact that they were skirmishes which succeeded in their object which has given them an importance which is exaggerated."

These "skirmishes" was the first Anglo-Boer War.

"Their herds and flocks accompanied the migration, and the children helped to round them in and drive them.
One tattered little boy of ten cracked his sjambok whip behind the bullocks. He was a small item in that singular crowd, but he was of interest to us, for his name was Paul Stephanus Kruger."

Chapter 1: The Boer People

After twenty years, during which the world was shaken by the Titanic struggle in the final counting up of the game and paying of the stakes, the Cape Colony was added in 1814 to the British Empire.

The beginning of the end...

"But I do not think that any unprejudiced man can read the facts without acknowledging that the British government has done its best to avoid war, and the British Army to wage it with humanity."


It takes mental effort to continue with this absolute nonsense.

But on my reading list was a book about the Anglo-Boer War through the eyes of the English.

So here goes.....