Encyclopedia of the Boer War: 1899-1902,9781851093427

Encyclopedia of the Boer War: 1899-1902

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ISBN13: 9781851093427
ISBN10: 1851093427
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-06-01
Publisher(s): Abc-Clio Inc
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Summary

The only comprehensive encyclopedia on the Boer War available, this volume offers A-to-Z entries on the war's origins, military strategy and tactics, main battles and sieges, major political and military figures, weaponry, and several related topics.

Entries include:
-- Afrikaner uprisings
-- Battle of Elands River Post
-- Commandant-General Louis Botha
-- Concentration camps
-- General Sir Redvers Buller
-- Lieutenant H. H. "Breaker" Morant
-- Maxim-Vickers machine gun
-- Siege of Ladysmith
-- Winston Churchill

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Introduction: The White Men Arrive; The British Presence;Boer Independence; The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902; Map of Africa; The Progress of the War; Guerrilla War. ix
Chronology xxi
List of illustrations
xxvii
A-Z
1(398)
Appendix: British Forces
283(20)
Appendix: Boer Forces
303(3)
Appendix: Concentration and Refugee Camps
306(2)
Appendix (Documents):
The Battle of Elandslaagte
308(4)
G. W. Steevens
The Battle of Belmont
312(3)
Lt. C. W. Barton
The Battle of Magersfontein
315(1)
Pvt. J. Williamson
The Hunt for De Wet
316(4)
Pvt. F. Everett
Report to the Committee of the Distress Fund for South African Women and Children
320(39)
Emily Hobhouse
Peace Negotiations:
The Middelberg Proposal: Lord Kitchener to Commandant-General Botha, Pretoria, March 7, 1901
359(2)
Extracts from the minutes of the first meeting of the National [Boer] Representatives at Vereeninging, 15-17 May, 1902
361(15)
Extracts from the minutes of the conference at Pretoria between the Committee of the National Representative and Lords Kitchener and Milner, 19-28 May, 1902
376(12)
Extracts from the minutes of the second meeting of the National Representatives at Vereeniging, 29-31 May, 1902
388(11)
Bibliography 399(6)
Index 405

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