The Great Boer War
The Great Boer War
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Title: The Great Boer War
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Release Date: Feb, 2002 [EBook #3069] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on September 30, 2002] [Most recently updated: September 30, 2002]
Edition: 11
Language: English
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E-text editor's note: It may come as a surprise that the creator of Sherlock Holmes wrote a history of the Boer War. The then 40-year-old novelist wanted to see the war first hand as a soldier, but the Victorian army balked at having a popular author wielding a pen in its ranks. The army did accept him as a doctor and Doyle was knighted in 1902 for his work with a field hospital in Bloemfontein. Doyle's vivid description of the battles is probably thanks to the eye-witness accounts he got from his patients. This, the best book on the Boer War I've encountered, is a long out of print lost classic that I stumbled across in a Cape Town second-hand bookstore.
Robert Laing.
Proofed by Sue Asscher [email protected]
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THE GREAT BOER WAR
BY
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER 1.
THE BOER NATIONS.
CHAPTER 2.
THE CAUSE OF QUARREL.
CHAPTER 3.
THE NEGOTIATIONS.
CHAPTER 4.
THE EVE OF WAR.
CHAPTER 5.
TALANA HILL.
CHAPTER 6.
ELANDSLAAGTE AND RIETFONTEIN.
CHAPTER 7.
THE BATTLE OF LADYSMITH.
CHAPTER 8.
LORD METHUEN'S ADVANCE.
CHAPTER 9.
BATTLE OF MAGERSFONTEIN.
CHAPTER 10.
THE BATTLE OF STORMBERG.
CHAPTER 11.
BATTLE OF COLENSO.
CHAPTER 12.
THE DARK HOUR.
CHAPTER 13.
THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH.
CHAPTER 14.
THE COLESBERG OPERATIONS.
CHAPTER 15.
SPION KOP.
CHAPTER 16.
VAALKRANZ.
CHAPTER 17.
BULLER'S FINAL ADVANCE.
CHAPTER 18.
THE SIEGE AND RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY.
CHAPTER 19.
PAARDEBERG.
CHAPTER 20.
ROBERTS'S ADVANCE ON BLOEMFONTEIN.
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