Episode 63 - The death of the French Colonel as Vincent van Gogh’s brother fights for the Boers.
We’re going to ride with the French Colonel or "Die Franse Kolonel", Georges Villebois-Mareuil as he heads into the Free State with the International Legion. This episode is slightly longer than usual...
2 Dec 201826min
Episode 62 - The honourable French Colonel Villebois-Mareuil and his personal war
This week its Frenchman Georges Villebois-Mareuil whose military exploits echoed the wars of the 19th Century, particularly the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. Villebois-Mareuil even spent time in what...
25 Nov 201820min
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 Christia...
18 Nov 201820min
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...
11 Nov 201823min
Episode 59 - Freda Schlosberg goes home as an icy rain lashes the Canadians
Mercurial Boer commander Christiaan de Wet has just avoided being captured along with Free State President Andries Steyn at the brutal "small" battle at Bothaville. The Boers lost 25 killed and 130 ca...
4 Nov 201817min
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 gat...
28 Okt 201814min
Episode 57 - St John Brodrick’s poisoned chalice & Jan Smuts hatches an outrageous plan
The guerilla campaign is now under way in late October 1900 and the leaders of the Boer commandos and their remaining political icon, Andries Styen the president of the Free State, are due to meet one...
21 Okt 201818min
Episode 56 - General Knox’s waxed moustache, rowdy Australians, 500 Maoris & Lord Kitchener censors
This is episode 56 and there are movements afoot. For instance, Transvaal President Paul Kruger is on his way to Europe on a diplomatic mission, Free State President Styen is moving through the North...
14 Okt 201818min
