item: #1 of 19
          id: 14299
      author: Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Grey
       title: Native Races and the War
        date: None
       words: 48329
      flesch: 65
     summary: I have similar testimonies from missionaries (not Englishmen); but I regret to say that these good men hesitate to have their names published,--not from selfish reasons,--but from love of their missionary work and their native converts, to whom they fear they will never be permitted to return if the ascendancy of the present Transvaal Government should continue, and Mr. Kruger should learn that they have published what they have seen in his country. For we have a debt to pay back to South Africa; and if we cannot resume our solemn responsibilities towards her and her millions of native peoples, in a chastened, a wiser and a more determined spirit than that which for some time has prevailed, it would be better to relinquish them altogether.
    keywords: africa; boers; british; cape; chief; colony; convention; country; day; dutch; england; english; following; footnote; frere; god; government; great; kruger; law; mackenzie; man; native; peace; people; policy; present; president; principles; public; queen; question; races; sir; slavery; south; south africa; state; time; transvaal; war; work; years
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        item: #2 of 19
          id: 14426
      author: Churchill, Winston
       title: London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
        date: None
       words: 86882
      flesch: 74
     summary: As I marched home an officer said to me: 'Why is it, when the Church spends so much on missionary work among heathens, she does not take the trouble to send good men to preach in time of war? It was very dry weather, and the bullets striking between the horsemen raised large spurts of dust, so that it seemed that many men must surely be hit.
    keywords: action; army; artillery; attack; battery; boers; bridge; brigade; british; buller; camp; cavalry; colenso; country; day; days; end; enemy; engine; field; fire; firing; force; forward; general; good; ground; guns; half; hill; horse; infantry; ladysmith; left; line; man; men; miles; natal; near; night; o'clock; officers; position; prisoners; railway; range; redvers; river; shell; sir; soldiers; south; thought; time; town; train; troops; tugela; war; white; yards
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        item: #3 of 19
          id: 15106
      author: Thomas, C. H.
       title: Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked
        date: None
       words: 41009
      flesch: 50
     summary: The rough labour all over South Africa is done mostly by Kaffirs and other coloured people. It is with real grief that I must record my convictions against the Boer nation as solely and entirely guilty, but with this qualification, that its responsibility is much attenuated by the fact, as I will endeavour to show, that the bulk of that people has been unconsciously decoyed as tools of a gigantic intrigue, a conspiracy which was originated some thirty years ago by an infamous Hollander coterie, and operated since by its product and engine, the now well-known Afrikaner Bond Association, with its significant motto of Afrika voor Afrikaners[1]--its object being no less than the eviction of all that is English from South Africa, and to substitute a federation of all South African States into one free and independent Republic, the affiliation to be with Holland instead, and Dutch the common and official language, other nations, in return for afforded aid, to participate in the trade and other advantages wrested from England.
    keywords: africa; afrikaner; afrikaner bond; boer; boer nation; boer people; boer war; bond; british; burghers; cape; cause; colonial; colonies; conditions; country; dutch; england; english; franchise; general; gold; good; government; holland; hollander; independence; krüger; language; means; members; natal; nation; object; orange; peace; people; president; relations; republics; rights; south; south africa; state; time; transvaal; uitlanders; war; way; years
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        item: #4 of 19
          id: 16494
      author: Fitzpatrick, Percy
       title: The Transvaal from Within: A Private Record of Public Affairs
        date: None
       words: 187987
      flesch: 57
     summary: I at once replied that the ultimatum required the surrender of guns and ammunition for which no permit of importation had been obtained, and that onus rested with Transvaal Government to show that guns and ammunition were concealed for which no permit had been issued. There is scarcely an Uitlander in the Transvaal who would not view with dismay the raising of the big question upon such grounds as the treatment of the natives, the Cape boys, or the Indians; and the fact that the Transvaal Government know this may account for much of the provocation on these questions.
    keywords: action; african; annexation; arms; article; boer government; boers; british; burghers; case; commandant; commissioner; committee; company; conditions; country; course; court; cronjé; day; dutch; effect; english; evidence; executive; fact; following; force; franchise; general; good; government; government commission; honour; jameson; january; johannesburg; johannesburg people; judge; justice; kruger; law; left; letter; line; majesty; man; matter; meeting; members; mines; native; number; officials; opinion; order; party; people; persons; place; point; policy; position; power; present; president; president kruger; pretoria; prisoners; question; railway; reform; reformers; reply; republic; result; right; settlement; sir; south; state; state president; subject; terms; time; town; transvaal; trial; uitlanders; view; volksraad; war; way; white; years
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        item: #5 of 19
          id: 17136
      author: None
       title: Selected Official Documents of the South African Republic and Great Britain A Documentary Perspective Of The Causes Of The War In South Africa
        date: None
       words: 18980
      flesch: 57
     summary: Ultimatum of South African Republic, October 9, 1899 57 8. These provisions do not preclude the consideration of special arrangements as to import duties and commercial relations between the South African Republic and any of Her Majesty's colonies or possessions.
    keywords: african; african republic; article; council; executive; field; government; law; majesty; members; president; republic; south; state; volksraad; years
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        item: #6 of 19
          id: 17968
      author: Guyot, Yves
       title: Boer Politics
        date: None
       words: 39727
      flesch: 63
     summary: Dr. Kuyper tells us that neither he nor Mr. Krüger recognise them, considering them to have been vitiated by the Annexation of 1877. Now what does Dr. Kuyper think of the Volksraad's mode of legislation, and of the manner in which Mr. Krüger, that man of intelligence and superior morality, interprets respect for justice? CHAPTER VI.
    keywords: african; arbitration; article; boers; british; case; chamberlain; chapter; conference; convention; england; english; franchise; gold; government; krüger; kuyper; law; mines; president; president krüger; pretoria; question; republic; right; sir; siècle; south; state; suzerainty; time; transvaal; uitlanders; volksraad; war; years
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        item: #7 of 19
          id: 18794
      author: De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf
       title: Three Years' War
        date: None
       words: 155990
      flesch: 69
     summary: Commandant General Botha then rose, and said: I am glad to have an opportunity of giving my views upon the present state of affairs. Other burghers I told off to fetch water from our prisoners' canteens, to supply our own wounded.
    keywords: african; bethlehem; boer; botha; british; burghers; chief; colony; commandant; commander; commandos; country; day; district; enemy; english; fire; following; footnote; force; free; general; general de; government; guns; horses; independence; kitchener; kroonstad; left; line; lord; majesty; meeting; miles; milner; morning; nation; night; north; orange; order; place; position; president; prinsloo; prisoners; proposal; railway; republic; river; south; state; steyn; surrender; thought; time; transvaal; troops; waggons; war; way; wet; women
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        item: #8 of 19
          id: 22323
      author: Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount
       title: Impressions of South Africa
        date: None
       words: 176217
      flesch: 59
     summary: I had not travelled with the view of writing a book; but the interest which the events just mentioned have aroused, and which is likely to be sustained for a good while to come, leads me to believe that the impressions of a traveller who has visited other new countries may be useful to those who desire to know what South Africa is really like, and why it makes a noise and stir in the world disproportionate to its small population. There are, of course, rough and ill-omened explorers and settlers in South Africa, as in other new countries: but having wandered a good deal, in different countries, on the outer edge of civilization, I was struck by the large proportion of well-mannered and well-educated men whom one came across in this tropical wilderness.
    keywords: african; america; article; bay; boers; britain; british; british south; cape; cape colony; cape town; cattle; century; chapter; chief; coast; colonial; colonies; colony; company; convention; country; course; day; dry; dutch; east; eastern; english; european; fact; feet; footnote; force; free; general; gold; good; government; great; ground; half; high; hills; history; interior; kafirs; labour; land; life; line; little; man; mashonaland; miles; mining; mountains; natal; native; new; north; number; orange; parts; people; place; point; population; portuguese; power; present; president; race; railway; region; republic; river; sea; south africa; state; territories; territory; time; town; transvaal; trees; tribes; war; water; way; west; white; work; world; years; zambesi; | |
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        item: #9 of 19
          id: 23692
      author: Creswicke, Louis
       title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899
        date: None
       words: 92285
      flesch: 63
     summary: The promise of the future was a general holocaust, in which Boer men, women, and children, farms and flocks would be annihilated. British Government put a stop to Boer raids into Zululand, and confined them to a territory of nearly 3000 square miles; to be known as the New Republic.
    keywords: action; affairs; african; annexation; article; boers; british; camp; cape; captain; chief; colonel; colony; column; commissioner; convention; country; day; dutch; enemy; fire; following; force; general; good; government; half; high; jameson; johannesburg; kruger; land; left; long; lord; majesty; major; man; march; miles; military; natal; natives; new; order; party; people; persons; place; policy; position; president; pretoria; prince; republic; right; river; road; sir; south; south africa; state; subject; territory; time; transvaal; troops; uitlanders; war; way; white; wounded; years; zulus; | |
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        item: #10 of 19
          id: 26198
      author: Creswicke, Louis
       title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
        date: None
       words: 97402
      flesch: 67
     summary: We had fought gloriously, sometimes successfully; great men and brave had written their names in blood on the roll of heroes and had passed away, but nothing decisive had been done. We I daresay, have a lot of severe fighting before us, and it is a great gratification to me to know I have the help of such men as I see before me.
    keywords: 1st; 2nd; action; adjutant; advance; army; artillery; attack; battalion; battery; battle; boers; brigade; british; bullets; camp; cape; captain; colenso; colonel; column; commanding; corps; day; dead; east; enemy; field; fire; firing; following; force; fusiliers; gallant; general; guards; guns; half; highlanders; hill; horse; hours; illustration; infantry; kimberley; kopje; ladysmith; left; lieutenant; light; line; long; lord; major; man; men; methuen; miles; natal; north; officers; order; party; place; position; railway; regiment; rifles; river; round; royal; service; shells; shot; sir; south; staff; state; time; town; train; troops; war; way; west; white; work; yards
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        item: #11 of 19
          id: 32934
      author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
       title: The Young Colonists: A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars
        date: None
       words: 77110
      flesch: 75
     summary: Among savage people infants who are in any way deformed are generally deserted and left to perish, and this was the fate evidently intended for the child when the mother became convinced he would not grow up tall and straight, like other men. Mr Harvey was a trader, one of those who are in the habit of taking long expeditions far into the interior, with his waggons laden with cotton, beads, tower-muskets, powder, lead, and toys prized by the natives, returning laden with ivory, ostrich feathers, and skins.
    keywords: attack; boers; boys; camp; cattle; colonel; column; come; country; day; days; dick; enemy; feet; fire; force; general; good; half; horses; humphreys; left; men; miles; morning; mr harvey; mr humphreys; natives; night; party; place; round; time; tom; troops; waggons; water; way; wood; work; yards; zulus
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        item: #12 of 19
          id: 36866
      author: Creswicke, Louis
       title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 8) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900
        date: None
       words: 97258
      flesch: 66
     summary: Here was this gallant officer, whose life had been devoted to the service of his country, and who was at an age when many other men would have elected to stay by hearth and home, suddenly called on to act in the most difficult and trying crisis. Among the ranks of the Colonials are many men of wealth and influence, men of high character and good education.
    keywords: 1st; 2nd; action; advance; africa; army; artillery; attack; battalion; boers; brigade; british; buller; camp; canadian; cape; captain; cavalry; charles; co.; colonel; command; commanding; company; contingent; corps; country; day; drift; dutchmen; enemy; field; fire; following; force; free; french; gallant; general; good; government; great; guns; half; hill; horse; hours; illustration; imperial; infantry; january; kop; ladysmith; left; lieutenant; life; lord; mafeking; major; man; men; miles; military; morning; natal; new; night; north; officers; order; place; position; regiment; rifles; river; roberts; royal; second; service; shells; sir; south; spion; staff; state; time; town; troops; volunteers; war; warren; way; west; work; wounded; | |
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        item: #13 of 19
          id: 36951
      author: Fitzpatrick, Percy
       title: Jock of the Bushveld
        date: None
       words: 133828
      flesch: 74
     summary: Sometimes he snorted and feinted to charge; at other times backed slowly, giving way to draw the enemy on; then with a sudden lunge the great horns swished like a scythe with a tremendous reach out, easily covering the spot where Jock had been a fraction of a second before. It was never certain what he would do; sometimes it would be a wild romp, as it was that day; at other times he would stalk the intruder in the open, much as a pointer approaches his birds in the last strides, and with eyes fixed steadily and mouth tightly pursed-up, he would move straight at him with infinite slowness and deliberation until, the boy's nerve failed, and he turned and ran.
    keywords: air; bank; black; boys; buck; bush; camp; chance; close; crocodile; day; days; dog; dogs; ears; end; eyes; face; feet; fire; foot; game; good; grass; half; hand; hard; head; high; hunting; jim; jock; koodoo; left; legs; life; look; looking; man; men; minutes; morning; near; nose; open; oxen; place; rest; rifle; right; river; road; rocky; round; shot; small; tail; things; thought; time; tree; turn; waggons; water; way; white; wild; work; yards
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        item: #14 of 19
          id: 38768
      author: Creswicke, Louis
       title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 4 (of 8) From Lord Roberts' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree
        date: None
       words: 101401
      flesch: 66
     summary: [please insert here one my night-before-battle scenes No. 4] but I could not help feeling Army doing wrong sleep knew enemy front determined myself go forward find out position enemy passed outlying picket told officer keep good look out as knew enemy front officer answer and actually wished prevent me passing picket but when told him my name allowed pass sun now rising glorious [insert sunrise scene No. 2] moved cautiously forward saw near distance kopje approached near suddenly whole kopje burst forth into flame of flashes bullets whizzed past Boer position taken.
    keywords: 1st; 2nd; advance; africa; army; artillery; attack; away; bloemfontein; boers; brigade; british; camp; cape; captain; cavalry; chief; colonel; country; cronje; day; days; division; drift; dutchmen; east; end; enemy; february; field; fighting; fire; firing; following; force; french; gallant; general; good; government; guns; having; hill; horse; illustration; infantry; kimberley; kopjes; laager; ladysmith; left; lieutenant; line; long; lord; mafeking; major; man; march; men; miles; military; morning; new; night; north; officers; order; page; people; place; position; regiment; relief; river; roberts; round; royal; second; shell; sir; small; south; staff; state; time; town; trenches; troops; waggons; war; way; west; work; wounded; yards
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        item: #15 of 19
          id: 41017
      author: Creswicke, Louis
       title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 5 (of 8) From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Roberts's Entry into Pretoria
        date: None
       words: 90967
      flesch: 68
     summary: Wounds received at Rensburg: Lieutenant-Colonel C. Cunningham, Lieutenant J. C. Roberts. Lieutenant H. C. Hall, Northumberland Fusiliers. _Wounded and Missing._--Captain P. D. Dray, Lieutenant and Quartermaster Hawkins.
    keywords: 1st; 2nd; action; advance; army; artillery; attack; battery; bloemfontein; boers; brigade; british; camp; captain; cavalry; colonel; column; day; days; division; dutchmen; east; enemy; field; fighting; fire; following; force; french; gallant; general; general hamilton; general ian; general j.; guards; guns; hamilton; hill; horse; hours; illustration; imperial; infantry; left; lieutenant; line; little; lord; mafeking; major; march; men; miles; morning; near; night; north; officer; operations; place; position; pretoria; prisoners; railway; relief; rifles; river; roberts; round; royal; rundle; second; sir; south; spruit; time; town; troops; war; way; west; work; yards; yeomanry
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        item: #16 of 19
          id: 44649
      author: Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider)
       title: The Last Boer War
        date: None
       words: 76372
      flesch: 58
     summary: The members of the Reform Committee were also seized and tried at Pretoria, several of them being condemned to death, a sentence which was not executed; the whole story, coming to its end to an accompaniment of the clash not of swords, but of gold; the fines inflicted upon the conspirators by the Transvaal Government amounting to a total of many tens of thousands of pounds. Between this chief and the Transvaal Government difficulties arose in the beginning of 1876 on the usual subject--land.
    keywords: africa; annexation; boer government; boers; british; cape; case; commission; convention; country; course; day; dutch; england; english; force; general; good; government; home; inhabitants; little; lord; majesty; man; matter; natal; native; party; peace; people; president; pretoria; queen; question; republic; right; rule; secocoeni; shepstone; sir; south; state; territory; time; transvaal; volksraad; war; way; white; words; years
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        item: #17 of 19
          id: 46303
      author: Creswicke, Louis
       title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 6 (of 8) From the Occupation of Pretoria to Mr. Kruger's Departure from South Africa, with a Summarised Account of the Guerilla War to March 1901
        date: None
       words: 128571
      flesch: 70
     summary: Entered R.N. 1864; Capt., 1895. Sir E. Chichester, Bart., Royal Navy, C.M.G. Entered Navy 1863; Capt., 1889.
    keywords: 1st; 2nd; 3rd; 4th; 5th; a.a.g; a.d.c; action; advance; african war; aldershot; army; artillery; attack; battery; battle; boers; brev; brigade; british; bronze; buller; c.b; campaign; cape; captain; casualties; cavalry; chief; clasp; colonel; colony; commanding; company; corps; country; d.a.a.g; d.s.o; daughter; day; despatches; dist; dutchmen; east; egyptian; egyptian medal; enemy; expedition; field; fighting; fire; force; fusiliers; gallant; general; guards; guns; hamilton; headquarters; hill; hon; horse; hussars; iii; illustration; imperial; india; infantry; ladysmith; late; left; lieut.-col; lieutenant; light; line; lord; maj.-gen; major; march; medal; men; miles; military; mounted; natal; near; nek; new; nile; north; occupied; officer; operations; orange; party; place; position; pretoria; prisoners; railway; regiment; relief; rifles; river; roberts; royal; s. african; second; sir; son; soudan; south; south africa; staff; star; surrender; time; town; transvaal; troops; volunteers; war; war service_--egyptian; war service_--s; war service_--soudan; west; wet; work; wounded; yeomanry; | |
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        item: #18 of 19
          id: 47132
      author: Creswicke, Louis
       title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 7 (of 8) The Guerilla War, from February 1901 to the Conclusion of Hostilities
        date: None
       words: 111467
      flesch: 63
     summary: In this direction, near the junction of the Rhenoster and Honing Spruit, was said to be the laager of Spanneberg, and consequently a force under Colonel the Hon. Command of the column was afterwards temporarily assumed by Colonel Wylly (Derbyshire Regiment), but Colonel Kekewich, recovered, soon returned to duty.
    keywords: 1st; 2nd; ammunition; april; attack; august; battery; boers; botha; british; burghers; camp; cape; captain; cattle; colonel; colonel allenby; colonel benson; colonel kekewich; colonel rimington; colony; column; commandant; commando; convoy; country; day; district; drift; east; elliot; end; enemy; field; fighting; fire; following; force; general; government; guns; hamilton; horses; imperial; infantry; july; kitchener; laager; left; lieutenant; line; lord; major; march; men; methuen; miles; near; new; night; north; number; officers; operations; orange; orange river; party; place; plumer; pom; position; prisoners; r.f.a; railway; regiment; rifles; river; river colony; royal; scouts; section; sir; south; state; time; transvaal; troops; waggons; war; west; wet; work; wounded; yeomanry; | |
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        item: #19 of 19
          id: 47449
      author: None
       title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 8 (of 8) South Africa and Its Future
        date: None
       words: 84886
      flesch: 60
     summary: This force has been formed for the maintenance of order and public security in the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal, but is available for service in any part of British South Africa. Everyone who has followed the story of the War in South Africa from start to finish will assuredly have acquired a keen and lasting interest in the land which has been won by the expenditure of so much blood and treasure.
    keywords: african; boer; bond; british; british south; cape; cape colony; case; children; coast; colonies; colony; country; development; dutch; east; empire; england; english; european; fact; feet; free; future; general; gold; good; government; great; high; illustration; imperial; industry; irrigation; johannesburg; land; law; line; little; man; means; mines; mining; natal; native; new; north; orange; past; people; place; policy; population; present; question; railway; rand; rhodesia; river; sir; south africa; state; system; time; total; town; transvaal; united; value; view; war; water; white; women; working; world; years; | |
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