The Anglo-Boer War

A podcast by Desmond Latham

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143 Episodes

  1. Episode 83 - Boer Secret Service Spy Johanna van Warmelo and the Petticoat Commando

    Published: 4/21/2019
  2. Episode 82 - Aborigine trackers, the Great Comet Viscara and the case of Gideon Scheepers

    Published: 4/14/2019
  3. Episode 81 - Black participation in the Boer War and Reitz breaks a leg

    Published: 4/7/2019
  4. Episode 80- A Boer Rodeo near Swart Ruggens & General Bindon Blood makes his dashing appearance

    Published: 3/31/2019
  5. Episode 79 - Reitz meets the Doppers and a wild-eyed prophet as the Gold Mines chug back to life

    Published: 3/24/2019
  6. Episode 78 - American blockhouses from Cuba and the enigma that was the pro-Boer John Tengo Jabavu

    Published: 3/17/2019
  7. Episode 77- Kitchener’s peace talks fail and De Wet experiences a miracle

    Published: 3/10/2019
  8. Episode 76 - Labram loses his head, darkness is De Wet’s salvation & Peace Talks begin

    Published: 3/3/2019
  9. Episode 75 - Cowboys, Theodore Roosevelt & Americans in the Anglo-Boer War

    Published: 2/24/2019
  10. Episode 74 - Louis Botha surprises the British near Ermelo & De Wet crosses a swamp in the Karoo.

    Published: 2/17/2019
  11. Episode 73 - Malperd Dies, the ACC disbands & The Great De Wet Hunt begins

    Published: 2/10/2019
  12. Episode 72 - Breaker Morant, Bulala Taylor and a British Military War Crimes Court Case

    Published: 2/3/2019
  13. Episode 71 - Russia’s role in the Anglo-Boer War

    Published: 1/27/2019
  14. Episode 70 -Queen Victoria dies and Emily Hobhouse travels to a Concentration Camp

    Published: 1/20/2019
  15. Episode 69 - The Machine called Lord Kitchener sets the veld ablaze

    Published: 1/13/2019
  16. Episode 68 - Douglas Haig ditches whiskey to hunt Kritzinger and Reitz meets a Crazy Horse.

    Published: 1/6/2019
  17. Episode 67 - Media censorship, portable cameras and Fake Victory propaganda.

    Published: 12/30/2018
  18. Episode 66 - Lord Kitchener perfects the Concentration Camp & Boers begin shooting traitors

    Published: 12/23/2018
  19. Episode 65 - Mark Twain barks at Churchill as Reitz shoots a British soldier with a dumdum

    Published: 12/16/2018
  20. Episode 64 - De Wet’s flood, de la Rey's victory & Canadians shoot up a Cape Town bar

    Published: 12/9/2018

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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.