Episode 31 - The Battle of Sanna's Post & De Wet goes after Cape Afrikaners
The Anglo-Boer War22 Huhti 2018

Episode 31 - The Battle of Sanna's Post & De Wet goes after Cape Afrikaners

Now we swing back to the Orange Free State and there’s a very good reason. His name is General Christian de Wet the famous Boer commander. If there was ever a person who fit the bill as cometh the hour, cometh the man - it was de Wet. He’d convinced his officer commanding General Joubert to allow the Free Staters to leave for home after Bloemfontein was captured by the British. De Wet’s logic was simple. His men had been away from home for six months fighting the mighty British empire and despite incredible victories, they’d lost the Orange Free State Republic capital. Six months away from home meant most were missing their loved ones — although some had brought their entire families who moved with the Boer commandos in their ox-wagons. So de Wet took a momentous gamble. He’d sent the men home saying they should re-assemble back on the railway bridge over the Sand River north of Bloemfonteon on the 25th March. While his decision was regarded as military suicide by Joubert, the British had made it easy for him. Lord Roberts had called a halt to his march to Pretoria in order to rest the troops and wait for his logistics to catch up. Both sides took a breather. Historians are quick to point out that Lord Roberts had created a nightmare by overriding his logistics leadership and adopted a gung-ho attitude to the movement of his material - now he was paying for his rash decision to put the bloody thirsty Lord Kitchener .. your country needs you … in charge of food, provisions, equipment, support, transport.

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Episode 79 - Reitz meets the Doppers and a wild-eyed prophet as the Gold Mines chug back to life

Episode 79 - Reitz meets the Doppers and a wild-eyed prophet as the Gold Mines chug back to life

Episode 79 is full of strange swirling tales where Deneys Reitz our intrepid Boer narrator has been separated from his brother near Rustenberg after riding to fetch his all important saddle bags. Then...

24 Maalis 201918min

Episode 78 - American blockhouses from Cuba and the enigma that was the pro-Boer John Tengo Jabavu

Episode 78 - American blockhouses from Cuba and the enigma that was the pro-Boer John Tengo Jabavu

The ides of March were upon the British in South Africa as they continued chasing the ghost generals, Smuts, de la Rey, Beyers, de Wet across a cooling landscape that had begun its Southern Hemisphere...

17 Maalis 201922min

Episode 77- Kitchener’s peace talks fail and De Wet experiences a miracle

Episode 77- Kitchener’s peace talks fail and De Wet experiences a miracle

Episode 77 and the Great de Wet hunt sees the English cornering their quarry in the North East Cape Colony, close to Hopetown. The mercurial Boer general Christiaan de Wet has given up the plan to inv...

10 Maalis 201921min

Episode 76 - Labram loses his head, darkness is De Wet’s salvation & Peace Talks begin

Episode 76 - Labram loses his head, darkness is De Wet’s salvation & Peace Talks begin

This week we continue learning about Americans in the war and ride with Christiaan de Wet as he scurries back across the Orange River - his attempts at invading the Cape ending in failure. There are a...

3 Maalis 201922min

Episode 75 - Cowboys, Theodore Roosevelt & Americans in the Anglo-Boer War

Episode 75 - Cowboys, Theodore Roosevelt & Americans in the Anglo-Boer War

This week I'm focusing on America and Americans who fought in the war. What made Americans travel half way around the world to fight for both the Boers and the English? The initial answer is obvious ...

24 Helmi 201919min

Episode 74 - Louis Botha surprises the British near Ermelo & De Wet crosses a swamp in the Karoo.

Episode 74 - Louis Botha surprises the British near Ermelo & De Wet crosses a swamp in the Karoo.

The guerrilla campaign is moving ahead swiftly, while in the northern Cape, the Great De Wet Hunt is in full swing. In the Eastern Transvaal, General Louis Botha had attacked the British in a surpri...

17 Helmi 201920min

Episode 73 - Malperd Dies, the ACC disbands & The Great De Wet Hunt begins

Episode 73 - Malperd Dies, the ACC disbands & The Great De Wet Hunt begins

This week Deneys Reitz finds himself walking, while the Great de Wet Hunt begins in the Northern Cape and Free State. I would like to thank listeners for the wonderful messages I've received and sugg...

10 Helmi 201917min

Episode 72 - Breaker Morant, Bulala Taylor and a British Military War Crimes Court Case

Episode 72 - Breaker Morant, Bulala Taylor and a British Military War Crimes Court Case

This week we explore incidents involving Australians based in Pretoria who committed war crimes and were executed. But what really happened? I’m going to try and detach the myth from the reality a...

3 Helmi 201919min

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