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Military History – South Africa – Europe – England 19th Century
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Thereafter the South African Republic (ZAR) enjoyed the massive tax revenues which funded
the purchase of weapons and promised to change the balance of power in the area. British imperialist
and economic interests alike were threatened. Force having failed, democracy was attempted by those
in the pay of the mining companies and a bid was made to have the franchise extended to the
uitlanders;the failure of this bid led to the Second Boer War.
See also:
Rhodes, Cecil; Wernher, Beit & Co.
Reference:
Pakenham, Thomas, The Boer War (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979; Abacus, 1992);
Pretorius, Fransjohan, The Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 (Cape Town, Don Nelson, 1985).
Gordon, Brigadier-General J. R. P.
Gordon joined the 15th Hussars in 1879 at the age of nineteen and served in the Afghan War of 1880,
in the First Boer War, in the Bechuanaland Expedition of 1884–85, in Burma in 1887, in Lagos in
1892 and in the Ashanti War of 1895–96. He was in command of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade in Majorgeneral French’s Cavalry Division on the ride to relieve Kimberley. After they had crossed the Riet
River near Waterval and the Modder at Klip Drift, the cavalry had to pass a nek (a pass between
hills) dominated by Boers and their artillery. French gave Gordon the task of breaking through, which
he did with the 9th and 15th Lancers to the fore, at the gallop.
See also:
French, Lieutenant-general Sir John; Kimberley, Siege of; Waterval Drift, Action at.
Gough, Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert De La Poer,
1870–1963
Hubert Gough joined the 16th Lancers in 1889 and saw service in India. He served under Sir Redvers
Buller at the battles of Colenso and Spoienkop and was given a mounted infantry command at
Vaalkrans. During the guerrilla phase of the war he commanded a column in the defence of northern
Natal and was defeated and captured by Commandant-general Louis Botha at Blood River Poort in
September 1901. He seems to have been somewhat impulsive in mounting an attack before he was
fully appraised of his enemy’s dispositions, but to some extent redeemed himself by escaping.
Gough achieved high command in the First World War in France and was unlucky in being the
man in command when the offensive of March 1918 pushed the British back some forty miles. He was
relieved of his command and recalled to England.
See also:
Blood River Poort, Action at.
Reference:
Pakenham, Thomas, The Boer War (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979; Abacus, 1992).
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