Author: LINESMAN
Title: Words by an Eyewitness: The Struggle in Natal
Description: Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Fair Copy of this book in Publisher's original blue dark pictorial cloth with title lettering stamped in black to the spine and upper cover.There is quite a lot of wear and rubbing to outer boards with fraying to cloth along spine and at it's tips with small puncture hole to the front cover (3mm dimension Lacking it's ffep.There is also some weakness to the front and rear gutter hinges.With Boots ex library lending label to the rear pastedown.Uncommon title 8vo 343pp plus 32 page publisher's catalogue at rear of book.The Boer War was the first time that Australia and New Zealand troops had fought abroad. Sixty-two percent of the first contingent were New Zealand-born. They were known as the New Zealand mounted rifles and they wore a fern leaf symbol. There was no difficulty in finding volunteers-200 troops set off 10 days after war was declared. Eventually 6495 men and 800 horses were sent (a higher proportion per head of population than Australia or Canada). About 8000 Canadians fought in South Africa, about one-third came from the militia and the rest were paid by government officals.The British victory in the Second Boer War was secured through the use of "scorched earth" tactics, including the use of concentration camps and forced Labour.. Fair .

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