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Author : Evelyn Oliver Ashe
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Besieged by the Boers written by Evelyn Oliver Ashe and published by London : Hutchinson. This book was released on 1900 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evelyn Oliver Ashe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857062758
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Besieged by the Boers written by Evelyn Oliver Ashe and published by . This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Boer guns in Kimberley At the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899, the two Boer states, the Orange Free State and the South African Republic, moved swiftly to attack the heart of Cecil Rhodes' empire-the diamond mining town of Kimberley. The by now unpopular Rhodes, who many held responsible for the conflict as a result of his involvement in the 'Jameson Raid, ' galvanised the civilian population into a ramshackle but effectively organised defence. This combined with the efforts of the military garrison denied the town to the Boers and so began one of the legendary and lengthy sieges for which the Anglo-Boer War remains famous. Despite the unwelcome attentions of the Boer's artillery piece 'Long Tom' the town held out for 124 days until it was finally relieved. The author of this book, a doctor, was one of the besieged and his account is, of course, a vital source work on the conflict from its sharpest end. Available in softcover and hardcover with dust jacket.
Author : Ashe Evelyn Oliver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780243731817
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Besieged By the Boers written by Ashe Evelyn Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evelyn Oliver Ashe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781375442473
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Besieged by the Boers: A Diary of Life and Events in Kimberley During the Siege written by Evelyn Oliver Ashe and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evelyn Oliver Ashe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781360752075
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)
Download or read book BESIEGED BY THE BOERS written by Evelyn Oliver Ashe and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evelyn Oliver Ashe
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781294905028
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Besieged by the Boers written by Evelyn Oliver Ashe and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Evelyn Oliver Ashe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Besieged by the Boers. A Diary of Life and Events in Kimberley During the Siege ... With ... Illustrations written by Evelyn Oliver Ashe and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry H. S. Pearse
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Four Months Besieged written by Henry H. S. Pearse and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Four Months Besieged" (The Story of Ladysmith) by Henry H. S. Pearse. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Frederick David Baillie
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Mafeking: A Diary of a Siege written by Frederick David Baillie and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mafeking: A Diary of a Siege' is a wartime memoir by Major F .D. Baillie, a British soldier in South Africa at the time of the siege. The siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now called Mafikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War from October 1899 to May 1900. Baillie compiled his book from a number of articles he had written in the newspaper journal, The Morning Post."
Author : Paul K. Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195219309
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Besieged written by Paul K. Davis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient times to the present, great sieges have had an enormous impact on the shaping of world history. Now, in this spectacular, fully-illustrated volume, one hundred of the world's most monumental and mind-boggling sieges are laid out in detail. Besieged covers the most important sieges from around the world throughout history--from Joshua's assault on Jericho in the fifteenth century B.C. to the Russian attack on the Chechen capital of Grozny at the end of the twentieth. Each entry provides the name and date of the siege, its exact location in terms of today's world, the number of forces engaged, when known, the names of the commanders on each side, and the overall importance of the siege in its historical context. Thoroughly examining the actions of both the attackers and the defenders, the book explores the motivations of both, and strategically surveys the technical and tactical innovations and conditions both inside besieged positions and in the besiegers' ranks. The entries detail the historical setting, the particular circumstances of the event itself, and the long-term results of the siege. These riveting accounts are enhanced by illustrations, over seventy maps, and references for further reading. A glossary and a comprehensive index complete the book. Global in scope, and with stirring accounts of familiar sieges as well as many lesser known conflicts, Besieged is essential reading for military buffs and everyone interested in how the modern world came to be. Includes the sieges of: * Jericho (1405 B.C.) * Troy (1250 B.C.) * Acre (1189--1191) * Constantinople (1453) * Tenochtitlan (1521 * La Rochelle (1627--1628) * Leningrad (1941--1944) * Malta (1940--1942) * Dien Bien Phu (1954) * Khe Sanh (1968) * Beirut (1982) * Sarajevo (1991--1995)
Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145871876X
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Diamonds, Gold, and War written by Martin Meredith and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOUTHERN AFRICA was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the region. It culminated in the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and left the Boer republics devastated. In this gripping history of the turbulent years leading up to the founding of the modern state of South Africa in 1910, Martin Meredith portrays the great wealth and raw power, the deceit, corruption, and racism that lay behind Britain's empire-building in southern Africa. Diamonds, Gold, and War is a tale of high adventure, high fi nance, and high politics that also shows the massive impact of white expansion on indigenous African societies. And it explains the rise of the virulent Afrikaner nationalism that eventually took hold, with repercussions lasting nearly a century.
Author : Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Publisher : Johannesburg : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Boer War Diary of Sol T. Plaatje written by Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje and published by Johannesburg : Macmillan. This book was released on 1973 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction contains a biographical sketch of Sol T Plaatje.
Author : Byron Farwell
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783830611
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (838 download)
Download or read book The Great Boer War written by Byron Farwell and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-19 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the battle for independence from the British Empire in South Africa by “a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars” (Kirkus Reviews). The Great Boer War (1899-1902), more properly known as the Great Anglo-Boer War, was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats of personal heroism, unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humor and tragedy. Byron Farwell traces the war’s origins; the slow mounting of the British efforts to overthrow the Afrikaners; the bungling and bickering of the British command; the remarkable series of bloody battles that almost consistently ended in victory for the Boers over the much more numerous British forces; political developments in London and Pretoria; the sieges of Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberley; the concentration camps into which Boer families were herded; and the exhausting guerrilla warfare of the last few years when the Boer armies were finally driven from the field. The Great Boer War is a definitive history of a dramatic conflict by the author of Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, “a leading popular military historian” (Publishers Weekly).
Author : Edmund Yorke
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750957662
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Battle Story: Mafeking 1899-1900 written by Edmund Yorke and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Siege of Mafeking remains one of the most renowned actions of the Second Boer War, with the British Army defeating a Boer force of up to 8,000 men with barely 1,500 troops. In a siege that lasted 217 days, Robert Baden-Powell and his troops withheld attack from the Boers against all the odds and Mafeking was finally relieved on 17 May 1900. It caused much public excitement in Victorian Britain, with Baden-Powell emerging as a national hero. If you want to understand what happened and why – read Battle Story. One of the most famous, if controversial, battles of the Second Boer War – memorialised across South Africa, Canada and the United Kingdom The Siege of Mafeking was instrumental in turning Robert Baden-Powell (later founder of the Scouts) into a national hero Includes significant contribution from South African, Canadian and Australian troops.
Author : Robin Smith
Publisher : Tsl Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781914245862
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (458 download)
Download or read book But We Got the Gun! written by Robin Smith and published by Tsl Publications. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quite soon after the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War in October 1899, Ladysmith was surrounded and besieged by Boer forces from the Transvaal and Orange Free State. For a time, there was very little action as the Boers sat down in their laagers around the dusty little town, resolving to bombard the British garrison into submission with their heavy guns. The British soldiers and the townsfolk waited for relief by General Redvers Buller's Imperial forces massing to the south beyond the Tugela River. However, the tangle of hills and koppies between Ladysmith and the river was a formidable barrier and relief was nearly three months away in December 1899. The garrison, in spite of its commander, Lieutenant General Sir George White, VC, taking the view that sorties outside the lines would serve no purpose, nevertheless took such initiatives on several occasions. A raid by the Colonial regiments on the night of 7th December 1899 succeeded in destroying two Boer guns on Gun Hill east of the town. British regular troops of the Rifle Brigade undertook another attack three nights later on Surprise Hill on the northern side of Ladysmith. They reached the summit undetected, skirmished with a few defenders and laid charges in the barrel of the Boer Krupp howitzer and blew it up. The Boers of the Pretoria Commando including a young man named Deneys Reitz and some friends intercepted the British soldiers as they descended the hill to return to Ladysmith. This is the story of that raid and its consequences.
Author : Thomas Pakenham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781868420742
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Boer War Illustrated written by Thomas Pakenham and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Winslow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845740115
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Siege of Potchefstroom {First Boer War 1880-81} written by Winslow and published by . This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting episode from the first Boer War of 1880-81, this account of the siege of Potchefstroom Fort in the Transvaal is the work of the British garrison s commander. Col. Winsloe was given command of the fort and town jail in December 1880 and within days the tiny garrison found itself besieged by the Boers under Gen. Cronje. They held out for more than three months - an epic of endurance - before shortages reduced them to extremity and compelled their surrender. Col. Winsloe s book gives a full account of this little-known but heroic siege, in which his garrison and their civilian dependents lost some 30 dead. Well-illustrated with maps, sketches and photographs.
