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Download or read book Louis Botha written by Richard Steyn and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Man Apart Richard Steyn once again brings to life a South African icon. Louis Botha was the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, a union he did much to create in the decade after the devastation of the Anglo-Boer War. During the war Botha was a brilliant young Boer general who through his battlefield strategy won significant victories over the British in the early stages of the war. When the weight of British arms overwhelmed the Boers, Botha along with Smuts did much to encourage peace between English and Afrikaner and led the country to Union in 1910 and dominion status. Botha was a big-hearted and generous man who showed magnanimity in his dealings with all, including former enemies. He led the South African troops to victory and the capture of German South West Africa – prior to this he had to put down a revolt of pro-German Afrikaners. At the Peace of Versailles, representing South Africa, he pleaded unsuccessfully for magnanimity towards the Germans. Botha was a globally respected figure – he and Smuts effectively operated as a double act in South Africa and on the international stage before Botha's untimely death in August 1919 at only 57. In A Man Apart this tragically short life is illuminated in full.
Download or read book Louis Botha’s War written by Adam Cruise and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mere twelve years after fighting the British in the Anglo-Boer War, Louis Botha went to war again – this time on Britain’s side. As prime minister of the Union of South Africa at the outbreak of the Great War, Botha agreed to lead his country on a campaign against the Germans across the border in South-West Africa. But first he would have to deal with a revolt from fellow Afrikaners who would rather take up arms against him than side with the old enemy. Louis Botha’s War is the story of how a former Boer War general crushed a rebellion and rallied his country’s first united army to fight a better-equipped enemy in harsh conditions. It is a tale of thirsty men and horses trekking over miles of barren desert; German aviators flying above in rickety aeroplanes; the unusual presence of a prime minister’s wife on the field of battle; and a fabled gold-filled safe at the bottom of a lake. Adam Cruise recreates these fascinating events from journals, memoirs and documents, and describes how the remote battle sites look today. He also explores the effects of Botha’s campaign, which determined the relationship between South Africa and its northern protectorate until well into the twentieth century. This is an absorbing chronicle of the exploits of a remarkable man who has been strangely forgotten by history, but whom Winston Churchill described as the greatest general he had ever known.
Book Synopsis General Louis Botha ... With ... Portraits, Maps, Etc by : Frans Vredenryk ENGELENBURG
Download or read book General Louis Botha ... With ... Portraits, Maps, Etc written by Frans Vredenryk ENGELENBURG and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis General Louis Botha: a Biography by : Johannes Meintjes
Download or read book General Louis Botha: a Biography written by Johannes Meintjes and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1970 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis General Louis Botha by : Frans Vredenrijk Engelenburg
Download or read book General Louis Botha written by Frans Vredenrijk Engelenburg and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louis Botha Papers written by Louis Botha and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Louis Botha by : Elizabeth M. M. Clark
Download or read book Louis Botha written by Elizabeth M. M. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis General Louis Botha by : Edgar H. Brookes
Download or read book General Louis Botha written by Edgar H. Brookes and published by . This book was released on 1959* with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Question Of Treason by : Francis Hugh De Souza
Download or read book A Question Of Treason written by Francis Hugh De Souza and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Genl. Louis Botha by : Frans Vredenrijk Engelenburg
Download or read book Genl. Louis Botha written by Frans Vredenrijk Engelenburg and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis General Botha, the Career and the Man by : Harold Spender
Download or read book General Botha, the Career and the Man written by Harold Spender and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Current Opinion by : Edward Jewitt Wheeler
Download or read book Current Opinion written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Official Year Book of the Union by : South Africa. Office of Census and Statistics
Download or read book Official Year Book of the Union written by South Africa. Office of Census and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Botha, Smuts and the Great War by : Antonio Garcia
Download or read book Botha, Smuts and the Great War written by Antonio Garcia and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Botha, Smuts and the Great War 1914–1918 authors Antonio Garcia and Ian Van Der Waag conducted painstaking research in South Africa and the United Kingdom to produce this, first-of-a-kind volume on the wartime roles of South African prime minister, General Louis Botha and his deputy General Jan Smuts. These very different men appealed to different audiences. Botha’s nuance and emotional intelligence complemented Smuts’s intellectualism. Thrown into a world conflagration in August 1914 and facing internal rebellion and the threat posed by German troops on the borders, they led South Africa’s Union Defence Force. Both Botha and Smuts commanded in the field. Steadily, the South African army they commanded – benefiting from wartime training, sometimes in the field – gained resilience, experience, and battle-hardiness, adapting to the conditions of the campaigns and the demands of the tasks. South Africa’s campaigns were complex and divergent, starting with the invasion of neighbouring German South West Africa – to neutralise enemy radio stations and so aid the security of the South Atlantic. Suddenly suspended following the outbreak of the Afrikaner Rebellion, the campaign recommenced in January 1915. Following its conclusion, an infantry brigade, raised for Western Front service, was diverted to Egypt before facing near annihilation at Delville Wood. Simultaneously, a large South African force, fighting alongside British, African and Indian forces, overcame German resistance in East Africa whilst a brigade of field artillery and later the Cape Corps served in Egypt and Palestine. Moreover, approximately 6,500 South Africans served in the British Army, Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force and in the Royal Navy. Although lionised during the war by a British public hungry for heroes, there is a different side to Botha and Smuts. Shunned by Afrikaner nationalists at the time, they have remained divisive figures. Responsible for the enactment of the Land Act of 1913, which shaped South Africa’s socio-economic and political landscape. Botha’s statues in Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria were vandalised on a number of occasions between 2015 and 2022, and there were recent calls for Smuts’s statues to be removed. Behind Botha’s charming, attractive façade, and Smuts’s stoic machine, were two very human, imperfect, and quite probably inconsiderate, men. Together they provide a wonderful lens through which to examine the potent forces of the early twentieth-century world and the country they hoped to forge. Myopic compatriots had constrained their plans; but it was the outbreak of war in 1914 that offered the most significant opportunities and brought the most adverse challenges. They fought insurmountable odds, and achieved great victories, at home and abroad, but also made startling errors and, ultimately, in classical fashion risked being crushed by the weight of the world they tried to create.