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  1. Episode 63 - The death of the French Colonel as Vincent van Gogh’s brother fights for the Boers.

    Gepubliceerd: 2-12-2018

  2. Episode 62 - The honourable French Colonel Villebois-Mareuil and his personal war

    Gepubliceerd: 25-11-2018

  3. Episode 61 - Drinking coffee in Dewetsdorp while President Kruger arrives in Marseilles

    Gepubliceerd: 18-11-2018

  4. Episode 60 - The heroic Canadians of Lieliefontein and Boer hero General Fourie falls

    Gepubliceerd: 11-11-2018

  5. Episode 59 - Freda Schlosberg goes home as an icy rain lashes the Canadians

    Gepubliceerd: 4-11-2018

  6. Episode 58 - De Wet experiences a terrible misfortune as his scouts bungle

    Gepubliceerd: 28-10-2018

  7. Episode 57 - St John Brodrick’s poisoned chalice & Jan Smuts hatches an outrageous plan

    Gepubliceerd: 21-10-2018

  8. Episode 56 - General Knox’s waxed moustache, rowdy Australians, 500 Maoris & Lord Kitchener censors

    Gepubliceerd: 14-10-2018

  9. Episode 55 - The Concentration Camps installed and Winston Churchill wins in Oldham

    Gepubliceerd: 7-10-2018

  10. Episode 54- The flimsy Oath of Neutrality collapses at the start of a Southern Spring

    Gepubliceerd: 30-9-2018

  11. Episode 53 - An IED on a Transvaal railway line & London Times Shipping Records.

    Gepubliceerd: 23-9-2018

  12. Episode 52 - Politics in a time of war and Freda’s brother survives a storm of bullets

    Gepubliceerd: 16-9-2018

  13. Episode 51 - The Australian view of an African war and President Kruger prepares to leave

    Gepubliceerd: 9-9-2018

  14. Episode 50 - The Canadians repulse an attack while Uitlanders commit a war crime

    Gepubliceerd: 2-9-2018

  15. Episode 49 - Total War destroys the ZARPS at Bergendal

    Gepubliceerd: 26-8-2018

  16. Episode 48 - Boer emissaries find it cold in Russia while de Wet scrambles up the Magaliesberg

    Gepubliceerd: 19-8-2018

  17. Episode 47 - General Buller reappears, Louis Botha plots and "Johnny" Hamilton bungles.

    Gepubliceerd: 12-8-2018

  18. Episode 46 - A German is executed and the Australians hold off Koos de la Rey.

    Gepubliceerd: 5-8-2018

  19. Episode 45 - De Wet drinks a cup of bitterness while Lord Roberts’ wife upsets Queen Victoria

    Gepubliceerd: 29-7-2018

  20. Episode 44 - The Mist of war descends on the Dragon Mountains and de Wet fights with his brother

    Gepubliceerd: 22-7-2018

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The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 saw the British Empire at the height of its power facing a small band of highly mobile Boers in South Africa. The war introduced the world to the concentration camp and is regarded as the first war of the modern era where magazine rifles, trenches and machine guns were deployed extensively. British losses topped 28 000 in a conflict that was supposed to take a few weeks but lasted three years.

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