Episode 61 - Drinking coffee in Dewetsdorp while President Kruger arrives in Marseilles
The Anglo-Boer War18 Marras 2018

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

In episode 61 we traverse the width of South Africa to head back to the Free State after following the Canadians through the Eastern Transvaal last week. It’s in the Free State where General Christiaan de Wet remains at large. His plan is to head south through the Free State and into the Cape - although he did consider Natal as an option as well. The Boers wanted to incite the Cape Afrikaners to rise up against the British by an insurgency they believed had a good chance of success. It was an idea General Jan Smuts had put to the gathered Boer leaders at a meeting in October 1900 at Cypherfontein farm west of Johannesburg. But we also know that de Wet distrusted many of his fellow commanders, and would not support the first part of Smuts’ plan which was an audacious plot to send a combined commando unit to blow up Johannesburg gold Mines, before dispersing to launch invasions of both the Natal and Cape Colonies. Also this week, we hear how Transvaal President Paul Kruger arrives in Marseilles, France, to a rapturous welcome by 60 000 people. But the ageing Boer leader is doomed never to return to Africa again.

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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...

29 Joulu 201919min

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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