The Anglo-Boer War

A podcast by Desmond Latham

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143 Episodes

  1. Episode 103 - A porcupine causes a stampede & General Smuts makes a big mistake at Murderer's Way

    Published: 9/8/2019
  2. Episode 102 - General Smuts enters the Cape and rides straight into a Basutho ambush

    Published: 9/1/2019
  3. Episode 101 - De Wet’s son shot by English special forces & Jan Smuts rides into view

    Published: 8/25/2019
  4. Episode 100 - “Send the Boers to Mexico” & Scheepers rides from Desolation Valley

    Published: 8/18/2019
  5. Episode 99 - A Devil's Gorge, an executed priest, and the madness of Breaker Morant

    Published: 8/11/2019
  6. Episode 98 - Lord Kitchener issues an exile proclamation and de Wet lays an IED

    Published: 8/4/2019
  7. Episode 97 - Bandits at the Southern border

    Published: 7/28/2019
  8. Episode 96 - Blundering into a British blockhouse, the Dirty Dozen break up

    Published: 7/21/2019
  9. Episode 95 - A Concentration Camp Commission & Maxwell has a brush with dynamite under a skirt

    Published: 7/14/2019
  10. Episode 94 - The British break a Boer code and President Steyn is forced to flee wearing a nightcap

    Published: 7/7/2019
  11. Episode 93 - The ruinous war costs 1.25m pounds a week & Lord Kitchener receives a telegram

    Published: 6/30/2019
  12. Episode 92 - Methods of barbarism and Magistrate Kidwell signs an oath of neutrality

    Published: 6/23/2019
  13. Episode 91 - Women are caught in an artillery barrage and a deadly blizzard sweeps across the veld

    Published: 6/16/2019
  14. Episode 90 - Casualties, alcohol, prostitutes and a skirmish at an overgrazed Free State farm

    Published: 6/9/2019
  15. Episode 89 - Emily Hobhouse pricks English consciousness & Reitz eats pork

    Published: 6/2/2019
  16. Episode 88 - Reitz chases Mustangs on the plains and Jan Smuts becomes pessimistic

    Published: 5/26/2019
  17. Episode 87 - The sad story of Gert Bezuidenhout (12)& Deneys Reitz starts his Quixotic Cape Quest

    Published: 5/19/2019
  18. Episode 86 - General Louis Botha grows despondent while Reitz plays cat and mouse with the English

    Published: 5/12/2019
  19. Episode 85 - Emily Hobhouse mobilises against the "gigantic blunder" of the Concentration Camps

    Published: 5/5/2019
  20. Episode 84 - Captain Phillipps frets about Tommy Atkins & New Zealanders learn a Maori War Cry

    Published: 4/28/2019

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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.