{"product_id":"2940013091566","title":"THE GREAT BOER WAR","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1. THE BOER NATIONS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 2. THE CAUSE OF QUARREL.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 3. THE NEGOTIATIONS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 4. THE EVE OF WAR.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 5. TALANA HILL.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 6. ELANDSLAAGTE AND RIETFONTEIN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 7. THE BATTLE OF LADYSMITH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 8. LORD METHUEN'S ADVANCE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 9. BATTLE OF MAGERSFONTEIN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 10. THE BATTLE OF STORMBERG.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 11. BATTLE OF COLENSO.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 12. THE DARK HOUR.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 13. THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 14. THE COLESBERG OPERATIONS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 15. SPION KOP.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 16. VAALKRANZ.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 17. BULLER'S FINAL ADVANCE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 18. THE SIEGE AND RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 19. PAARDEBERG.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 20. ROBERTS'S ADVANCE ON BLOEMFONTEIN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 21. STRATEGIC EFFECTS OF LORD ROBERTS'S MARCH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 22. THE HALT AT BLOEMFONTEIN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 23. THE CLEARING OF THE SOUTH-EAST.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 24. THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 25. THE MARCH ON PRETORIA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 26. DIAMOND HILL--RUNDLE'S OPERATIONS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 27. THE LINES OF COMMUNICATION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 28. THE HALT AT PRETORIA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 29. THE ADVANCE TO KOMATIPOORT.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 30. THE CAMPAIGN OF DE WET.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 31. THE GUERILLA WARFARE IN THE TRANSVAAL: NOOITGEDACHT.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 32. THE SECOND INVASION OF CAPE COLONY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 33. THE NORTHERN OPERATIONS FROM JANUARY TO APRIL, 1901.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 34. THE WINTER CAMPAIGN (APRIL TO SEPTEMBER, 1901).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 35. THE GUERILLA OPERATIONS IN CAPE COLONY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 36. THE SPRING CAMPAIGN (SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER, 1901).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 37. THE CAMPAIGN OF JANUARY TO APRIL, 1902.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 38. DE LA REY'S CAMPAIGN OF 1902.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 39. THE END.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1. THE BOER NATIONS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTake a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended\u003cbr\u003ethemselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when\u003cbr\u003eSpain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain\u003cbr\u003eof those inflexible French Huguenots who gave up home and fortune and\u003cbr\u003eleft their country for ever at the time of the revocation of the Edict\u003cbr\u003eof Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile,\u003cbr\u003eunconquerable races ever seen upon earth. Take this formidable people\u003cbr\u003eand train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage\u003cbr\u003emen and ferocious beasts, in circumstances under which no weakling could\u003cbr\u003esurvive, place them so that they acquire exceptional skill with weapons\u003cbr\u003eand in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to\u003cbr\u003ethe tactics of the huntsman, the marksman, and the rider. Then, finally,\u003cbr\u003eput a finer temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic\u003cbr\u003eOld Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine\u003cbr\u003eall these qualities and all these impulses in one individual, and you\u003cbr\u003ehave the modern Boer--the most formidable antagonist who ever crossed\u003cbr\u003ethe path of Imperial Britain. Our military history has largely consisted\u003cbr\u003ein our conflicts with France, but Napoleon and all his veterans have\u003cbr\u003enever treated us so roughly as these hard-bitten farmers with their\u003cbr\u003eancient theology and their inconveniently modern rifles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLook at the map of South Africa, and there, in the very centre of the\u003cbr\u003eBritish possessions, like the stone in a peach, lies the great stretch\u003cbr\u003eof the two republics, a mighty domain for so small a people. How came\u003cbr\u003ethey there? Who are these Teutonic folk who have burrowed so deeply into\u003cbr\u003eAfrica? It is a twice-told tale, and yet it must be told once again if\u003cbr\u003ethis story is to have even the most superficial of introductions. No one\u003cbr\u003ecan know or appreciate the Boer who does not know his past, for he is\u003cbr\u003ewhat his past has made him.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079182139632,"sku":"2940013091566","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013091566_p0.jpg?v=1763576772","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013091566","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}