The Anglo-Boer War
A podcast by Desmond Latham

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143 Episodes
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Episode 63 - The death of the French Colonel as Vincent van Gogh’s brother fights for the Boers.
Published: 12/2/2018 -
Episode 62 - The honourable French Colonel Villebois-Mareuil and his personal war
Published: 11/25/2018 -
Episode 61 - Drinking coffee in Dewetsdorp while President Kruger arrives in Marseilles
Published: 11/18/2018 -
Episode 60 - The heroic Canadians of Lieliefontein and Boer hero General Fourie falls
Published: 11/11/2018 -
Episode 59 - Freda Schlosberg goes home as an icy rain lashes the Canadians
Published: 11/4/2018 -
Episode 58 - De Wet experiences a terrible misfortune as his scouts bungle
Published: 10/28/2018 -
Episode 57 - St John Brodrick’s poisoned chalice & Jan Smuts hatches an outrageous plan
Published: 10/21/2018 -
Episode 56 - General Knox’s waxed moustache, rowdy Australians, 500 Maoris & Lord Kitchener censors
Published: 10/14/2018 -
Episode 55 - The Concentration Camps installed and Winston Churchill wins in Oldham
Published: 10/7/2018 -
Episode 54- The flimsy Oath of Neutrality collapses at the start of a Southern Spring
Published: 9/30/2018 -
Episode 53 - An IED on a Transvaal railway line & London Times Shipping Records.
Published: 9/23/2018 -
Episode 52 - Politics in a time of war and Freda’s brother survives a storm of bullets
Published: 9/16/2018 -
Episode 51 - The Australian view of an African war and President Kruger prepares to leave
Published: 9/9/2018 -
Episode 50 - The Canadians repulse an attack while Uitlanders commit a war crime
Published: 9/2/2018 -
Episode 49 - Total War destroys the ZARPS at Bergendal
Published: 8/26/2018 -
Episode 48 - Boer emissaries find it cold in Russia while de Wet scrambles up the Magaliesberg
Published: 8/19/2018 -
Episode 47 - General Buller reappears, Louis Botha plots and "Johnny" Hamilton bungles.
Published: 8/12/2018 -
Episode 46 - A German is executed and the Australians hold off Koos de la Rey.
Published: 8/5/2018 -
Episode 45 - De Wet drinks a cup of bitterness while Lord Roberts’ wife upsets Queen Victoria
Published: 7/29/2018 -
Episode 44 - The Mist of war descends on the Dragon Mountains and de Wet fights with his brother
Published: 7/22/2018
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.