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Boris GorelikIn January 1900, galvanised by the daring of the Boers in taking on imperial Britain, the young Russian officer Yevgeny Avgustus set off for the Transvaal to fight in the Anglo-Boer War. Like most of the foreign volunteers who flocked to the Boer cause, he ended up on the Natal front. Avgustus and his companions…
David Brook KatzJan Smuts’s abilities as a general have been much denigrated by modern historians. However, he was no armchair soldier – the statesman courageously led his men into battle. During the South African War, he was immersed in the Boer manoeuvre doctrine, which he used to devastating effect in the guerrilla phase of that conflict –…
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