The Anglo-Boer War

We’re up to episode 138 and it’s a week to go before the all-important Boer Conference in Vereeniging starting May 15th ... Read more

Sir Redvers Buller the commander in chief of British Forces in South Africa, sailed into the harbour on the Dunottar Cas... Read more

Episode 77 and the Great de Wet hunt sees the English cornering their quarry in the North East Cape Colony, close to Hop... Read more

Its the end of May and the guerrilla war has turned nasty as the coldest winter of living memory has started - bringing ... Read more

The conventional war has ended and the guerilla war has begun.The next few episodes will explore the actions of various ... Read more

We’ve reached May 1901 and surprisingly, General Louis Botha is trying to reach out to Lord Kitchener who is the British... Read more

This week its Frenchman Georges Villebois-Mareuil whose military exploits echoed the wars of the 19th Century, particula... Read more

We’re up to episode 39, and we’re concentrating on the Natal front - or what was known as the Eastern Front.The Natal to... Read more

That’s 45 weeks since the start of the war in October 1899. And this podcast series is following the weeks, so to speak.... Read more

This week we continue with the battle of Spion Kop and as you’ll hear, its a battle that horrified those who took part w... Read more

It's January 1900 and we're at the eponymous battle of Spion Kop. In part one of the two part coverage of the battle, we... Read more

In this episode General Buller makes a return and some of his slow moving tactics start paying off. Lord Kitchener compl... Read more

It’s the third week of July 1901 and this winter has been cold even by the standards of South Africa’s high plains. As I... Read more

It’s the first week of May 1901, and winter has come early in South Africa. As I mentioned last week, at this point soci... Read more

There are a few more skirmishes and one more big battle after this period with its frustrations for the British and dete... Read more

Its summer – December 1901. General Jan Smuts is on the run in the Cape Colony being chased by tens of thousands of Brit... Read more

It’s time for reflection - and to talk about General Louis Botha who’s invasion into Natal fizzled out leading to his co... Read more

This is episode 32 - the English swarm over South Africa. I have borrowed the title from a Chapter in Christian De Wet’... Read more

In July Lieutenant Hans Cordua who was a German, had led a plot to overthrown the British once they’d arrived in the Tra... Read more

The Battle of Magersfontein destroyed a Highland Brigade and taught the English a lesson they'd forget almost immediatel... Read more