The Transvaal Rebellion: The First Boer War, 1880-1881

ISBN-13: 9780582772618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 280 str.

John Laband

Opis

According to Rudyard Kipling, The Boer Wars taught the British no end of a lesson. This book tells the untold story of the Boer Wars - the disastrous British campaign of the First Boer War and how its outcome influenced the nature of the second Boer War and thus the future of the whole of South Africa.

Spis treści

Preface: A Clash of Military Cultures

1. The Imperial Factor and the Transvaal

2. The situation in the Transvaal Territory in 1880 and the outbreak of rebellion

3. The Boer and the British military systems

4. In open rebellion: the Boers seize the military initiative

5. 'Cribbed, cabined, confined, bound-in': the blockaded garrisons

6. The Natal Field Force

7. Laing's Nek

8. Ingogo

9. Seeking a way out of the war

10. Majuba

11. Peace and betrayal

Conclusion: 'Remember Majuba!'

O autorze

Dr John Laband is presently Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada. He was previously Professor of History at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He specialises in war and society studies and is a leading expert on the history of the Zulu kingdom. He is the author or co-author of over twenty books.