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“The savage wars of peace”
The name given by Rudyard Kipling to the wars fought during Queen Victoria’s reign (20 June 1837 to 22 January 1901) – was a period when British soldiers were engaged in fighting for her and her empire during every year of her reign.
South Africa played a significant part in the history of this period. Here are two interesting facts:
- On 22 January 1879 the British army suffered it’s single biggest defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana where 52 British Officers and 810 men lost their lives to a Zulu army equipped with only shields and spears, and
- The Anglo-Boer War (South African War) 1899 to 1902, was the most expensive war in the history of Britain costing an estimated 210 million Pounds (equivalent to a staggering 24 billion Pounds today.)
“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers.
The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country” – George S Patton
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THIS MONTH’S FEATURED BATTLE
THE battle of witpoort
16 July 1900: A Battle that so nearly became another Silkaatsnek disaster …
After the Battle of Diamond Hill (11 – 13 June 1900), the Boer leaders met with the Republican Government at Balmoral and a decision was taken that commandos should return to their Districts to regroup and reorganise …
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