Episode 58 - De Wet experiences a terrible misfortune as his scouts bungle
The Anglo-Boer War28 Loka 2018

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

This is episode 58 and there’s much excitement, General Knox catches up with de Wet for a second time and all hell breaks loose. Nothing damages you more in war than a lack of proper intelligence gathering. With information that is accurate and dispassionate, you can improve morale, skirmish successfully, offset equipment shortfalls, plan forward, restrict enemy incursions and avoid pitfalls. Victory is possible. Without proper scouts, victory is uncertain. So its the last week of October 1900 and General Christiaan de Wet has begun to really miss the scouts under command of Danie Theron. He’d been blown up in a British attack back in September. As I’ve prepared this series, there have been many characters that have come and gone, some survived this terrible war, others avoided capture, some succeeded, many died. But none, dear listener, has been as effective as part of de Wet’s commando as this one person. Danie Theron had a relatively small force under his command, between 60 and 80 men. But this organisation as its known in military terms, was imbued with a remarkable ability. The company could read the landscape and the enemy. And they did it surrupticiously. They could survive for months on end with one meal every three days, and water intermittantly. They understood the enemy more profoundly than themselves and were able to report unemotionally and with certainty at any time day or night. It was these men that Christiaan de Wet missed and in the space of a fortnight, almost cost him his life and freedom.

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Episode 103 - A porcupine causes a stampede & General Smuts makes a big mistake at Murderer's Way

Episode 103 - A porcupine causes a stampede & General Smuts makes a big mistake at Murderer's Way

We continue to rid4 with General Jan Smuts and he has just entered the Cape Colony, an invasion that has been planned to coincide with Spring in early September 1901. The master guerrilla fighter and ...

8 Syys 201919min

Episode 102 - General Smuts enters the Cape and rides straight into a Basutho ambush

Episode 102 - General Smuts enters the Cape and rides straight into a Basutho ambush

Spring is upon is in this podcast - so too the long-awaited invasion of the Cape Colony by General Jan Smuts and his commando. It has taken him almost a month of zig-zagging across the Free State from...

1 Syys 201919min

Episode 101 - De Wet’s son shot by English special forces & Jan Smuts rides into view

Episode 101 - De Wet’s son shot by English special forces & Jan Smuts rides into view

This week we hear about the Dandy Fifth and Deneys Reitz. It’s also time to ride with General Christiaan de Wet as he sums up the Blockhouses. Reitz has fallen in with “this little band” as he calls t...

25 Elo 201918min

Episode 100 - “Send the Boers to Mexico” & Scheepers rides from Desolation Valley

Episode 100 - “Send the Boers to Mexico” & Scheepers rides from Desolation Valley

It’s an amazing to think that back in 2017 I was thinking about this podcast and whether I should go ahead and cover a topic that was missing on both iTunes and general podcasting. Jumping in and star...

18 Elo 201916min

Episode 99 - A Devil's Gorge, an executed priest, and the madness of Breaker Morant

Episode 99 - A Devil's Gorge, an executed priest, and the madness of Breaker Morant

It’s early August 1901 and a series of events in a far off corner of the war would end up resonating internationally for the next one hundred and 18 years. These involved the Bushveld Carbineers, th...

11 Elo 201924min

Episode 98 - Lord Kitchener issues an exile proclamation and de Wet lays an IED

Episode 98 - Lord Kitchener issues an exile proclamation and de Wet lays an IED

It’s time for an exchange of letters and a proclamation or two. General Jan Smuts and his commando have broken into smaller units and are traveling from the Transvaal to the Free State / Cape border. ...

4 Elo 201918min

Episode 97 - Bandits at the Southern border

Episode 97 - Bandits at the Southern border

This week we will hear about bandits at the Southern Border who are making the most of the guerrilla war raging around the Transvaal, parts of the Cape and the Free State. These motley laggards lurke...

28 Heinä 201917min

Episode 96 - Blundering into a British blockhouse, the Dirty Dozen break up

Episode 96 - Blundering into a British blockhouse, the Dirty Dozen break up

It’s the third week of July 1901 and this winter has been cold even by the standards of South Africa’s high plains. As I’m writing this, snow has blanketed parts of the semi-desert known as the Karoo ...

21 Heinä 201919min

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