In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British army, guardian of the Empire in countless wars across the globe, was destined to be humiliated by poorly-organised citizen militia consisting of men whom the British professionals despised as back-wood farmers. In one week in December 1899 the farmers of the South African Boer Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal inflicted three serious reverses on British troops.
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Ian Knight was born in 1956. He was a freelance writer on military history for ten years before studying Afro-Caribbean History at the University of Kent. He has written widely on Zulu history and travelled extensively in Zululand. Ian was the editor of the Victorian Military Society journal for many years, and has written several books for Osprey.
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Twin Peaks, Aloe Knoll, Free State, South Africa, Anglo-Boer War, Army Corps, Conical Hill, Mount Alice, Fort Wylie, Scottish Rifles, Lancashire Fusiliers, Louis Botha, Schalk Burger, Zulu War, Colenso Koppies, Hart's Hill, Pieter's Hill, Green Hill, Wynne's Hill, Barton's Brigade, Field Battery, Potgeiter's Drift, Trichardt's Drift, British Garrison, Lieutenant Freddy Roberts New!
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Twin Peaks, Aloe Knoll, Free State, South Africa, Anglo-Boer War, Army Corps, Conical Hill, Mount Alice, Fort Wylie, Scottish Rifles, Lancashire Fusiliers, Louis Botha, Schalk Burger, Zulu War, Colenso Koppies, Hart's Hill, Pieter's Hill, Green Hill, Wynne's Hill, Barton's Brigade, Field Battery, Potgeiter's Drift, Trichardt's Drift, British Garrison, Lieutenant Freddy Roberts New!
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- London to Ladysmith via Pretoria by Spencer Winston Churchill on page 92
- London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill) by Sir Winston Churchill on page 92
- The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham on page 91
- MY EARLY LIFE: 1874-1904 by Winston Churchill on page 92
- The Great boer War (Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on page 91
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