Letters from Kimberley: eyewitness accounts from the South African War
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| ISBN: | 9781848326576 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Illustrations
vii
List of Maps
viii
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction Kimberley: The Siege and its Significance
1
Chapter
1
Defending Diamond City
11
Chapter
2
Relief Force: Advancing to the
Modder
River
37
Chapter
3
Magersfontein: Highlanders Marched to their Graves
77
Chapter
4
Kimberley: Beleaguered and Bombarded
107
Chapters Kimberley Relieved:
Cronjé
Surrenders
127
Chapter
6
Assessing the Kimberley Siege
165
Select Bibliography
185
Index
191
Fresh insights into the extraordinary siege
of Kimberley
(1899-1900)
Xold through eyewitness accounts, many
of them not republished since the siege
Written by a noted scHolar of the South
African War
The defence of Kamberley
—
and the mission to
relieve it
—
was one of the great dramatic sagas of
the South AiVican War. The actual relief,
following a spectacular cavalry charge,
represented the first decisive upturn in the
fortunes of the British war effort, soon followed
by a crushing defeat of the Boers at the battle of
Paardeberg. Within Kimberley citizens suffered
from dwindling food stocks and enemy shelling,
forcing many women and children to hide in the
mines, but even more controversial were the
tensions that erupted between the siege
commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Kekewich, and
Kimberley s leading citizen, Cecil Rhodes.
In this illuminating new history, Edward Spiers,
a leading authority on the Victorian army,
presents a selection of first-hand accounts of this
epic siege. The
260
letters were published
originally in British metropolitan and provincial
newspapers and they provide crucial insights
into the perceptions of civilians; the desperate
and bloody attempts to relieve the town; and the
experiences of junior officers and other ranks as
they struggled to cope with the demands of
modern warfare. Full of human incident, drama
and pathos, these fascinating eyewitness
testimonies make for compelling reading and
add richly to our understanding of the events in
Cape Colony.
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