The Boer War by Bossenbroek, Martin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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COVER TITLE COPYRIGHT CONTENTS Prologue – Heritage Day Bloemfontein, 24 September 2011 Part I – For a good cause June 1884 – October 1899

An extraordinary meeting (Amsterdam, June 1884) For thou art dust (Pretoria, October 1884) Hunger for land (Veertienstroom, January 1885) Gold (Johannesburg, January 1887) Concessions (Pretoria, June 1887) Boers and Hollanders, love and hate (Amsterdam, November 1889) Rhodes & Company (Pretoria, July 1892) Lifeline (Lourenço Marques, July 1895) To arms (Berlin, January 1896) Diamond Jubilee (London, May 1897) A parting of ways (Pretoria, February 1898) Last chances (Atlantic Ocean, January 1899)

Part II – Like a boys’ adventure story October 1899 – June 1900

Rule, Britannia! (Southampton, 14 October 1899) War on four fronts (Cape Town, 31 October 1899) A hail of bullets (Chieveley, 15 November 1899) The rules of warfare (Pretoria, 18 November 1899) The abandoned mine (Witbank, 15 December 1899) A warm welcome (Durban, 23 December 1899) Blind spot (Spion Kop, 24 January 1900) Breakthrough (Monte Cristo, 18 February 1900) Fever (Ladysmith, 3 March 1900) Columns on the move (Bloemfontein, 16 April 1900) Colour (Kroonstad, 12 May 1900) Victory (Pretoria, 5 June 1900)

Part III – Death and destruction June 1900 – May 1902

Adrift (Pretoria, June 1900) Flushing out the foe (Bronkhorstspruit, July 1900) His own way (Lydenburg, October 1900) Foreign territory (Warmbaths, November 1900) Guilty landscape (Naauwpoort, December 1900) Dead horse (Ou Wapad, February 1901) Winter of famine (Tafelkop, April 1901) Banished for life (Zastron, August 1901) Black death (Herschel, September 1901) Foray (Suurberg, October 1901) Retaliation (Leliefontein, March 1902) The bitter end (Concordia, April 1902)

Epilogue – Winners and losers Bloemfontein, 6 July 2012 Banished for life (Zastron, August 1901) Banished for life (Zastron, August 1901)