The Boer Fight For Freedom

Author : Michael Davitt
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230372822

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... The prompt release of Lord Methuen by De la Rey astounded the press of the civilized world by its knightly magnanimity. It created a painful impression among the friends of the Boer cause everywhere, by its uncalculating. and seemingly unpatriotic, generosity. Neither the captured general nor the British army merited any such consideration at Boer hands. Lord Methuen was the first English general to asperse the Boers in the war. He libeled them at Belmont, Enslin, and Modder River in unfounded charges; allegations made. too. in true English fashion, with the object of attempting to offset the true charges of Boer officers that the rules of civilized warfare had been deliberately violated by Methuen's troops at each of these battles. His officers arrested a Boer ambulance at Modder River, and sent doctors and assistants serving under Red Cross ensigns, as prisoners to Cape Town. All this was known to De la Rev, who had fought Methuen in his attempt to relieve Kimberley, and whose superb plan of aggressive defense at Magersfontein enabled Cronje to inflict upon this general and a powerful British army one of the greatest defeats of the war. The fate, too, of Commandants Lotter and Scheepers was present to De la Rey's mind when he released his captive. These officers had been executed for burning Government buildings in Cape Colony, and for shooting armed Kaffirs. Methuen had burned farms and villages in the Transvaal and Free State, and his men had killed wounded Boers at Modder River. De la Rey's own homestead had been burned by his troops, and the entire district in which he was born--the locality in which poetic justice decreed the defeat and capture of Methuen at his hands--bore testimony to the barbarous methods resorted to by the...

Author : Michael Davitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119362031

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1 folded map at end Includes index.

Author : MICHAEL. DAVITT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033333344

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BOER FIGHT FOR FREEDOM by MICHAEL. DAVITT Pdf

Author : Michael 1846-1906 Davitt
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1360867961

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BOER FIGHT FOR FREEDOM by Michael 1846-1906 Davitt Pdf

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Author : Michael Davitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1331025826

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The Boer Fight for Freedom (Classic Reprint) by Michael Davitt Pdf

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." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Michael Davitt
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497819849

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.

Author : Michael Davitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Ireland
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025744611

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Michael Davitt: The Boer fight for freedom by Michael Davitt Pdf

Author : Michael Davitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248088307

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The Boer Fight for Freedom by Michael Davitt Pdf

Author : Michael Davitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
ISBN : NWU:35556020144523

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The Boer Fight for Freedom by Michael Davitt Pdf

Author : Carin T. Ford
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766041257

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The Civil War's African-American Soldiers Through Primary Sources by Carin T. Ford Pdf

This middle school series brings Civil War history to life through true stories, descriptions of major events and primary source illustrations that will enhance the reader's experience.

Author : G. D. Scholtz,Gert Daniel Scholtz
Publisher : Protea Boekhuis
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : South Africa
ISBN : 1919825126

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The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 by G. D. Scholtz,Gert Daniel Scholtz Pdf

This concise history of the Anglo-Boer War, a prize-winning work which was originally written in Afrikaans, is the ideal book for those who want an overview of the military fortunes of the two warring parties. Now richly provided with maps and illustrations, it is one of the most accurate short histories of this important three-year war. The author, G. D. Scholtz, was a Afrikaner historian of great stature, who saw the Anglo-Boer War as a struggle for liberation, a fight for Boer freedom and independence. His original text has been sensitively translated into English by historian Bridget Theron, who is a lecturer at the University of South Africa. It is an accessible work that may provide echoes to the American wars of independence.

Author : Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698164543

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Churchill and Orwell by Thomas E. Ricks Pdf

A New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north. It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in Hitler and Mussolini "men we could do business with," if not in fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom—that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted. In the end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940's to triumph over freedom's enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E. Ricks's masterful hands, their lives are a beautiful testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin. Churchill and Orwell is a perfect gift for the holidays!

Author : Henry Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781520721545

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Boer Wars by Henry Freeman Pdf

As General Patton once said, “The Boers? Those sons of bitches fight for the hell of it." The reputation of the Boer is not entirely unearned. At a time when South Africa was a place inhabited by the toughest of men, only those who lived in the saddle with a gun in their hands could possibly survive. Inside you will read about... ✓ The Creation of the Boer ✓ Growing Tensions ✓ Colley Steps In ✓ The End of the First War ✓ The Jameson Raid ✓ Stage One: The Boer Offensive ✓ Stage Two: The Empire Strikes Back ✓ Stage Three: Scorched Earth ✓ The End of the Boer Who were the Boers, and what was the conflict that would lead them into a fight to the death with England in the First and Second Anglo-Boer wars? Was this a colonial uprising? Or a freedom-fight gone horribly wrong?

Author : Candice Millard
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307948786

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Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard Pdf

From the bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic, this thrilling biographical account of the life and legacy of Wintson Churchill is a "nail-biter and top-notch character study rolled into one" (The New York Times). At the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England. He arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow, to cover the brutal colonial war the British were fighting with Boer rebels and jumpstart his political career. But just two weeks later, Churchill was taken prisoner. Remarkably, he pulled off a daring escape—traversing hundreds of miles of enemy territory, alone, with nothing but a crumpled wad of cash, four slabs of chocolate, and his wits to guide him. Bestselling author Candice Millard spins an epic story of bravery, savagery, and chance encounters with a cast of historical characters—including Rudyard Kipling, Lord Kitchener, and Mohandas Gandhi—with whom Churchill would later share the world stage. But Hero of the Empire is more than an extraordinary adventure story, for the lessons Churchill took from the Boer War would profoundly affect twentieth century history.

Author : Thomas Pakenham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
ISBN : 1868420744

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Boer War Illustrated by Thomas Pakenham Pdf