With the Boer Forces

The Blockade at Delagoa Bay--Lorenzo Marques in war-time--Portuguese tax-raising methods--The way to the Transvaal--Koomatipoort, the Boer threshold--The low-veld or fever count...

The election of officers--Influences which assert themselves--Civil officials the leaders in war--The Krijgsraad and its verdicts--Lack of discipline among the burghers--General...

The disparity between the forces--A national and natural system of fighting--Every burgher a general--The Boers' mobility--The retreat of the three generals from Cape Colony--Di...

Fighting against forces numerically superior--The battle at Sannaspost--The trek towards the enemy--The scenes along the route--The night trek--Finding the enemy, and the dispos...

Farmer-generals who were without military experience--A few who studied military matters--Leaders chosen by the Volksraad--Operating in familiar territory--Joubert's part in the...

The Boers' real leader in peace and in war--Bismarck's opinion of Kruger--The President's duties in Pretoria--His visits to the laagers and the influence he exerted over the dis...

The soldier of fortune in every war--The fascination which attracts men to fight--The Boers' view of foreigners--The influx of foreigners into the Boer country in search of loot...

Boer women's glorious heritage--Their part in the political arena before the war--Urged the men to fight for their independence--Assisting their embarrassed government in furnis...

Amusing tales told and retold by the burghers--Boy-burghers at Magersfontein capture Highlanders' rifles--The Takhaar at Colenso, who belonged to "Rhodes' Uncivilised Boer Regim...

Immediately after war was declared between Great Britain and the Boers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, the two South African republics became ostracised, in a great...

In the olden days, before men with strange languages and customs entered their country and disturbed the serenity of their life, the Boers were accustomed to make annual trips t...

A visitor in one of the laagers in Natal once spoke of a Boer burgher as a "soldier." A Boer from the Wakkerstroom district interrupted his speech and said there were no Boer so...

When the Boer goes on a lion-hunting expedition he must be thoroughly acquainted with the game country; he must be experienced in the use of the rifle, and he must know how to p...

The disparity between the British and Boer armies seemed to be so great at the time the war was begun that the patriotic Englishman could hardly be blamed for asserting that the...

The battle of Sannaspost on March 31st was one of the few engagements in the campaign in which the forces of the Boers and the British were almost numerically equal. There were...

The names and deeds of the men who led thirty thousand of their fellow-peasants against almost a quarter of a million of the trained troops of the greatest empire in the world,...

The real leader of the Boers of the two Republics was Paul Kruger, their man of peace. His opinions on the momentous questions that agitated the country and his long political s...

In every war there are men who are not citizens of the country with whose army they are fighting, and the "soldier-of-fortune" is as much a recognised adjunct of modern armies a...

One of the most glorious pages in the history of the Boer nation relates to the work of the women who fought side by side with their husbands against the hordes of murderous Zul...

In every battle, and even in a day's life in the laagers, there were multitudes of interesting incidents as only such a war produces, and although Sherman's saying that "War is...