Episode 60 - The heroic Canadians of Lieliefontein and Boer hero General Fourie falls
The Anglo-Boer War11 Marras 2018

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

We’re still riding with the Canadians in the area around Belfast in the Eastern Transvaal, which is a short distance away from South Africa’s all important coal mines. Last week we heard how the icy rain had lashed Smith-Dorrien’s 1200 strong column as it tried to rid the region of a large Boer commando based at the nearby town of Carolina. That was a column of various English, Scots and Canadian units. He’d been forced to retreat after the effects of weather and Boer firepower at Witkloof and buried one of his top officers called Chalmers, but that didn’t deter Smith-Dorrien. A few days after his men arrived back in Belfast, bedraggled and ragged, he was planning a new offensive against the Boers. The first tragic expedition was merely a dress rehearsal for the battle of Liliefontein. The purpose of the second expedition was identical to the first. To destroy all the farms suspected of harbouring the Boer commandos who had been blowing up railway lines and committing other acts of sabotage. The British also wanted to lure the large Boer Carolina commando out of their lair along the Komati River and into battle. On the 6th November Smith-Dorrien once again set out under cover of darkness as he did last week but unlike the first expedition, there was no icy rain, no fog, no mist. It was in perfect weather that his column set off with temperatures even in the early evening in the mid-20s centigrade. There was one important difference this week. Smith-Dorrien had learned his lesson when it came to splitting up his force and the 1200 men moved as one unit.

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Episode 119 - A shoot out at Mr Guest’s farm after Deneys Reitz meets his English cousin

Episode 119 - A shoot out at Mr Guest’s farm after Deneys Reitz meets his English cousin

Its summer – December 1901. General Jan Smuts is on the run in the Cape Colony being chased by tens of thousands of British troops who are fixating on the fact that they don’t seem to be able to pin d...

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Episode 118 - Rawlinson surprises the Boers at Bethal & de Wet receives a Christmas present

Episode 118 - Rawlinson surprises the Boers at Bethal & de Wet receives a Christmas present

This episode takes us to Christmas 1901 and the battle of Groenkop near Bethlehem in the Free State where General Christiaan de Wet catches the British offguard on the top of a two hundred foot high k...

22 Joulu 201921min

Episode 117 - General Kritzinger is captured and Marconi sends a radio message

Episode 117 - General Kritzinger is captured and Marconi sends a radio message

So its December 1901 Christmas is a fortnight away for the combatants and Christiaan de Wet was tracking his arch enemy, brother Piet. It was revenge he was after and as we all know – it’s a meal bes...

14 Joulu 201918min

Episode 116 -The Fawcett Commission reaches a chilling conclusion

Episode 116 -The Fawcett Commission reaches a chilling conclusion

This week its all about the scandal of the Concentration Camps which breaks across Great Britain as the Fawcett Commission releases its initial report. We also continue to monitor General Christiaan d...

8 Joulu 201919min

Episode 115 – Sarah Raal rides into a trap but the dormant General de Wet awakens

Episode 115 – Sarah Raal rides into a trap but the dormant General de Wet awakens

This week General Christiaan De Wet who has been largely dormant for November awakens and begins to leer in the direction of the Cape once more while Sarah Raal continues to ride with Commandant Nieuw...

1 Joulu 201917min

Episode 114 - Sarah Raal "the lady who fought" is bloody but unbowed

Episode 114 - Sarah Raal "the lady who fought" is bloody but unbowed

This week’s episode is dominated by a young woman who we heard about last week called Sarah Raal. While some of her exploits have been exaggerated for Nationalist reasons years after the Boer War, the...

24 Marras 201920min

Episode 113 - We meet Sarah Raal “the lady who fought” & Reitz wakes up to the threat of khaki

Episode 113 - We meet Sarah Raal “the lady who fought” & Reitz wakes up to the threat of khaki

Episode 113 covers events happening in November 1901 with six months of the war and this podcast left to run. This week Deneys Reitz and his fellow Boers suddenly realise they should not be wearing Br...

17 Marras 201919min

Episode 112 - Kekewich’s bloody battle against General de la Rey where Boshof crawls to his death

Episode 112 - Kekewich’s bloody battle against General de la Rey where Boshof crawls to his death

The first week of November 1901 shipping records published in the Times of London featured regular updates such as this one: “The Armenian left Port Natal for Bombay on Nov 3 with Boer prisoners, 36 o...

10 Marras 201918min

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