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MacBride, John,
1865–1916
John MacBride was born in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland and was involved in the anti-British
Fenian movement before moving to South Africa in 1896. On the outbreak of the war he suggested to
President Kruger that he form an Irish Brigade as there were many men of Irish extraction in the South
African Republic (Transvaal). The command of the unit was offered to MacBride, but he declined,
judging himself too inexperienced, and the American former army officer J. Y. F. Blake became
colonel. The Irish fought in Natal in the first part of the war and were then part of the force that
resisted the British advance from Bloemfontein in May 1900. MacBride demonstrated his prowess
with explosives by blowing up every railway bridge between Bloemfontein and Johannesburg. The
Irish took part in the resistance all the way to the eastern border of the Transvaal, their last major
fight being at Bergendal on 27 August 1900, and MacBride left South Africa with many others in
September. He then visited America to promote the Boer cause before taking up residence in Paris
where, on 21 February 1903, he married the Irish actress and radical nationalist, Maude Gonne.
MacBride took part in the Easter Rising against the British in Dublin in 1916, and was captured. He
was executed at 3.47 a.m. on 5 May.
See also:
Blake, Colonel J. Y. F.; Irish.
Reference:
McCraken, Donal P., MacBride’s Brigade (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1999).
Macdonald, Major-General Hector A.,
1853–1903
Hector MacDonald became known to the British public as Fighting Mac. He was summoned to
command the Highland Brigade after its traumatic defeat in December 1899 at the Battle of
Magersfontein and led it successfully for the next year. Soon after taking up a new command in
Ceylon (Sri Lanka), he was accused of homosexual activities and he committed suicide.
Of humble parentage, MacDonald joined the 92nd Gordon Highlanders as a private soldier and
so distinguished himself in the Afghan War of 1879–80 that he was commissioned. It was as a
lieutenant that he fought at Majuba in the First Boer War, eventually resorting to using his fists and
thus gaining the respect of the Boers
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