Black Week: The British Army and Defeat in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1900

by Quintin Barry

In 1899 few readers of Rudyard Kipling's poem 'The Absent Minded Beggar, ' in which he wrote of 'Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table Bay, ' could have supposed that this army faced any serious risk of defeat from a handful of Boer farmers. Britain was going to war with the Boer Republics in order to assert her supremacy over southern Africa, and had mobilized a complete army corps, under General Sir Redvers Buller. This was a force considered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1804511862
• ISBN13: 9781804511862
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 208 Pages