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 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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