Episode 104 - A hunchback leads Smuts to safety & Captain Gough's fatal cavalry charge
The Anglo-Boer War15 Syys 2019

Episode 104 - A hunchback leads Smuts to safety & Captain Gough's fatal cavalry charge

It’s mid September 1901 and Jan Smuts is about to face one of the most challenging moments in his illustrious career. He was only 28 at this point, yet was to achieve so much in the next few weeks and would forever be remembered as the remarkable soldier who led a tiny group of men into the mouth of the British Empire lion. His immediately challenge, however, involved the weather, rather than the British. In an event which became known in Boer storytelling as The Big Rain, his commando was caught on high ground and hammered by a biblical deluge that threatened to destroy his force A few days after crossing into the Cape Colony and being attacked by the Basotho, Smuts survived a second ambush by a British patrol that killed his three scouts as they rode to investigate reports of a large column nearby. That was at the aptly named Moordenaars Poort or Murderers Way. Among the dead was Neethling who was a friend of our narrator, Deneys Reitz, who has warned us how many of the members of the Rijk Section, the Rich section as they ironically called themselves, were going to die. Ironic because they were dressed in rags - one of the ten went further describing the band of brothers as the Dandy Fifth. By around mid-September they were riding into more hills, which of course is where moist air rises and it rains more particularly on the Southerly facing mountains of South Africa. It may be the first month of Spring, but it can still snow on the high ground and Smuts’ commando was caught in freezing weather. It rained constantly, sometimes sleeted, and the wind never abated. The continued lack of any sunshine made them even more dispirited, and Reitz began to wish he’d never left the Free State.

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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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