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phase of the war. The skills he acquired in mobile warfare were to serve him well when, as
commander of the British army on the Palestine front in the First World War, he took Damascus in
October 1918.
Anti-Semitism
The motivation for supporting the Boers, or merely opposing the war against them, was not always
based on a sympathy for the Afrikaners, but sometimes grew from anti-semitism. A French volunteer
declared that he was in South Africa to support the Boers because he opposed the international
Jewish conspiracy to take over the sources of mineral wealth. Similarly, pro-Boer Liberal and
Socialist anti-capitalist propaganda in Britain had more than a mere colouring of anti-Jewish
sentiment. Paradoxically, however, some people who supported the British shared the same
antisemitic prejudices. For example, the populist anti-semitic and militarist movement in London,
known as the British Brothers League, was vehemently anti-Boer and worked towards a British
victory. British officers were known casually to refer to Johannesburg as Jewburg. At the time a
distaste for Jewish people was quite common, and lacked any of the genocidal extremism it acquired
in the mid-20th century.
Reference:
Warwick, Peter, ed., The South African War (Harlow, Longman, 1980).
Armoured Train Incident,
15 November 1899
The British dependency on the railways for the movement of supplies led them to convert railway
wagons into mobile mini-forts. Their extreme limitations of manoeuvre – either forwards, backwards
or standstill – made them vulnerable to well-planned attacks unless they had supporting troops. On 15
November 1899 a train was sent by Colonel C. J. Long from Frere northwards to Colenso. It was
halted at Chieveley where the Boers had destroyed the line and then started back but it was ambushed
by the Boers and partially derailed at the crossing of the Blaawkrantz River. The young Winston
Churchill was a passenger and he helped get part of the train moving once more but was himself
captured. He was imprisoned in the prisoner-of-war camp in Pretoria from which he managed to
escape to Lourenço Marques in Portuguese East Africa. He made his way back to Durban where he
received a hero’s welcome which did much for his political career.
This particular train was scarcely armoured, but was armed. There was an open ordinary wagon
in front (when going north) with a 7-pounder muzzle-loading gun crewed by men of HMS Tartar,an
open wagon modified with some armour and with loopholes in front of the engine, and two armoured
wagons behind which a regular wagon was attached with line repair equipment. Under Captain J. A.
L. Haldane 120 men of the Dublin Fusiliers and Durban Light Infantry manned the train. The
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