The Anglo-Boer War

A podcast by Desmond Latham

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143 Episodes

  1. Episode 143 - Characters of the war an omnibus final edition with a great deal of Smuts

    Published: 6/14/2020
  2. Episode 142 - The winners and the losers – counting the cost

    Published: 6/7/2020
  3. Episode 141 - Peace!

    Published: 5/31/2020
  4. Episode 140 - General Cronje demands a St Helena mounted guard & Peace Talks back on in Pretoria

    Published: 5/24/2020
  5. Episode 139 - Emotions run high in Vereeniging as the Boers discuss English Peace terms

    Published: 5/17/2020
  6. Episode 138 - The Zulu massacre Boers at Holkrantz on the eve of the Vereeniging Conference

    Published: 5/10/2020
  7. Episode 137 -Smuts meets a ragged Louis Botha and a Boer spy loses her mind momentarily

    Published: 5/3/2020
  8. Episode 136 - Deneys Reitz receives a record promotion and General Smuts takes a cruise to Cape Town

    Published: 4/26/2020
  9. Episode 135 - General de la Rey’s Mom turns 84 & the commandos run out of pap and vleis

    Published: 4/19/2020
  10. Episode 134 - Commandant Potgieter’s charge at the last battle of the Boer War, as Peace Talks begin

    Published: 4/12/2020
  11. Episode 133 - Cecil John Rhodes dies and the Boers agree to Peace Talks

    Published: 4/5/2020
  12. Episode 132 -The Canadians last stand at Boschbult aka Harts River & the Hague suggests peace

    Published: 3/29/2020
  13. Episode 131 -The Boers blow up a blockhouse & Lord Kitchener steams into Klerksdorp

    Published: 3/22/2020
  14. Episode 130 - Sniping and hand grenades in Springbok

    Published: 3/15/2020
  15. Episode 129 - Lord Methuen breaks a leg before Koos de la Rey executes soldiers

    Published: 3/8/2020
  16. Episode 128 -The Leliefontein Massacre & de Wet runs into British trenches

    Published: 3/1/2020
  17. Episode 127 -A treacherous spy meets his Nemesis and Jan Smuts heads for the beach

    Published: 2/23/2020
  18. Episode 126 - Jan Smuts makes a remarkable speech & we meet the treacherous colonial Lambert Colyn

    Published: 2/16/2020
  19. Episode 125 - A sleepy blockhouse stymies Kitchener’s New Model Drive & Jan Smuts leaves Kakamas

    Published: 2/9/2020
  20. Episode 124 -The incredible tale of the seven foot tall Coenraad de Buys and his independent clan

    Published: 2/2/2020

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The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 saw the British Empire at the height of its power facing a small band of highly mobile Boers in South Africa. The war introduced the world to the concentration camp and is regarded as the first war of the modern era where magazine rifles, trenches and machine guns were deployed extensively. British losses topped 28 000 in a conflict that was supposed to take a few weeks but lasted three years.