The Anglo-Boer War
A podcast by Desmond Latham

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143 Episodes
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Episode 103 - A porcupine causes a stampede & General Smuts makes a big mistake at Murderer's Way
Published: 9/8/2019 -
Episode 102 - General Smuts enters the Cape and rides straight into a Basutho ambush
Published: 9/1/2019 -
Episode 101 - De Wet’s son shot by English special forces & Jan Smuts rides into view
Published: 8/25/2019 -
Episode 100 - “Send the Boers to Mexico” & Scheepers rides from Desolation Valley
Published: 8/18/2019 -
Episode 99 - A Devil's Gorge, an executed priest, and the madness of Breaker Morant
Published: 8/11/2019 -
Episode 98 - Lord Kitchener issues an exile proclamation and de Wet lays an IED
Published: 8/4/2019 -
Episode 97 - Bandits at the Southern border
Published: 7/28/2019 -
Episode 96 - Blundering into a British blockhouse, the Dirty Dozen break up
Published: 7/21/2019 -
Episode 95 - A Concentration Camp Commission & Maxwell has a brush with dynamite under a skirt
Published: 7/14/2019 -
Episode 94 - The British break a Boer code and President Steyn is forced to flee wearing a nightcap
Published: 7/7/2019 -
Episode 93 - The ruinous war costs 1.25m pounds a week & Lord Kitchener receives a telegram
Published: 6/30/2019 -
Episode 92 - Methods of barbarism and Magistrate Kidwell signs an oath of neutrality
Published: 6/23/2019 -
Episode 91 - Women are caught in an artillery barrage and a deadly blizzard sweeps across the veld
Published: 6/16/2019 -
Episode 90 - Casualties, alcohol, prostitutes and a skirmish at an overgrazed Free State farm
Published: 6/9/2019 -
Episode 89 - Emily Hobhouse pricks English consciousness & Reitz eats pork
Published: 6/2/2019 -
Episode 88 - Reitz chases Mustangs on the plains and Jan Smuts becomes pessimistic
Published: 5/26/2019 -
Episode 87 - The sad story of Gert Bezuidenhout (12)& Deneys Reitz starts his Quixotic Cape Quest
Published: 5/19/2019 -
Episode 86 - General Louis Botha grows despondent while Reitz plays cat and mouse with the English
Published: 5/12/2019 -
Episode 85 - Emily Hobhouse mobilises against the "gigantic blunder" of the Concentration Camps
Published: 5/5/2019 -
Episode 84 - Captain Phillipps frets about Tommy Atkins & New Zealanders learn a Maori War Cry
Published: 4/28/2019
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.