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South African War, 1899-1902 --- 1899-1902.

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Charles Henry Tweddell (1869-1921) was one of several thousand Canadian soldiers who fought with British forces in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). A methodical diarist, Tweddell recounts his year of service from the time he left Quebec City until his return. Tweddell's diary captures the sounds, sights, and stench of war, its friendships and rivalries, its routine and boredom, its death, disease, and injury. Readers are taken into the battlefield and the British military’s disastrous medical services and facilities, and his month-long sight-seeing sick leave in London. Tweddell's diary suggests the allure of late nineteenth-century warfare, an appeal that drew many Boer War veterans, Tweddell included, to volunteer for service in the Great War that followed. Carman Miller's introduction presents a concise analysis of the Boer War's origins and its appeal to Canadian volunteers, and places the diarist within Quebec City's distinct society of overlapping religious, ethnic, and linguistic identities. Tweddell's diary, presented here in full for the first time, offers a rare and fascinating first-person account of Charlie's first war. It is a privileged insight into the fabric of late nineteenth-century military life, its opportunities, and personal costs, seen through the eyes of a perceptive observer and sympathetic raconteur.

South African War, 1899-1902. --- Tweddell, C. H., --- Canada.

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"Oorsprong van de apartheid. Eerste mediaoorlog. Voorproefje van de Eerste en de Tweede Wereldoorlog. De (Anglo)-Boerenoorlog (1899-1902) behoort tot de meest intrigerende conflicten in de moderne geschiedenis. Het verschil in status tussen supermacht Groot-Brittannie ̈en de twee nietige Boerenrepublieken, bewoond door afstammelingen van Nederlandse kolonisten, was bizar groot. Toch moesten de Britten heel ver gaan om de oorlog te winnen, tot en met systematische terreur tegen de burgerbevolking. Martin Bossenbroek, auteur van historische klassiekers als 'Holland op zijn Breedst' en 'De Meelstreep', vertelt het hele verhaal. Hij verplaatst zich in alle partijen en volgt drie kleurrijke hoofdpersonen op de voet: de Nederlandse jurist Willem Leyds, de Engelse oorlogsverslaggever Winston Churchill en de Boerencommando Deneys Reitz. Nooit eerder werd de Boerenoorlog zo compleet en zo beeldend beschreven"--Provided by publisher.

South African war, 1899-1902 --- 968.0.04 --- 968.0.04 Geschiedenis van Zuid-Afrika: 19de en 20ste eeuw--(1814-1909) --- Geschiedenis van Zuid-Afrika: 19de en 20ste eeuw--(1814-1909) --- South African War, 1899-1902 --- Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 --- Boer War, 1899-1902 --- Transvaal War, 1899-1902 --- History of Africa --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1800-1899 --- South Africa --- Guerre des Boers (1899-1902) --- Guerre des Boers, 1899-1902. --- South African War, 1899-1902. --- 1899-1902.

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This book examines the dark odyssey of official and private collective violence against the rural African population and Africans in general during the two generations before apartheid became the primary justification for the existence of the South African state. John Higginson discusses how Africans fought back against the entire spectrum of violence ranged against them, demonstrating just how contingent apartheid was on the struggle to hijack the future of the African majority.

Afrikaners --- Rural poor --- Poor whites --- Violence --- Political violence --- South African War, 1899-1902. --- Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 --- Boer War, 1899-1902 --- Transvaal War, 1899-1902 --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- White poor --- Poor --- Whites --- Rural poverty --- Africaanders --- Africanders --- Africaners --- Afrikaanders --- Afrikaaners --- Afrikaans-speaking South Africans --- Afrikanders --- Boers --- South Africans, Afrikaans-speaking --- Dutch --- Ethnology --- Economic conditions --- History --- South Africa --- Africa, South --- English-Afrikaner relations --- Race relations --- Rural conditions --- White poor people --- White people