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A narrative of the Boer war: its causes and results. By Thomas Fortescue Carter.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia 1896 Carter
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Thomas Fortescue.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transvaal (South Africa)--History--War of 1880-1881.
- Transvaal (South Africa).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 574 p. 23 cm.
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, J. Macqueen; Cape Town, J. C. Juta, 1896.
- Contents:
- Pt. I. The British in the Transvaal. Indirect causes of the war
- The act of annexation
- Direct causes of the war
- The inception of the struggle
- Pt. II. The battle-fields. Bronkhurst Spruit engagement
- The invasion of Natal
- March of the relief column to Mount Prospect
- The Battle of Laing's Nek
- President Brand the mediator, camp life
- Boer petition of rights
- The fight on Ingogo Heights
- The inception of peace negotiations
- The Boer advance into Natal, a reconnaissance
- The growth of peace negotiations
- Mount prospect camp reinforced, a morning call in the Transvaal, skirmishing
- The fight on the Majuba, a flight for life
- Burying the dead, an interview with Joubert, the general's funeral
- Sir Evelyn Wood in command, contemporary events in the free state and cape colony
- Pt. III. The peace. A long armistice and its result
- Laing's Nek deserted
- Pt. IV. A journey through the Transvaal. The siege of STanderton
- A visit to Heidelberg
- The siege of Pretoria
- The siege of Potchefstrom
- The siege of Leydenburg
- Marabastadt and Rustenburg, the hostility of the natives
- The siege of Wakkerstroom, the seizure of Utrecht and Middleburg
- Trekking south, the first meeting of the Boer Volksraad, waiting for the royal commission
- The royal commission, its functions and powers, Mr. Gladstone and the malcontents
- The convention
- The Volksraad and its verdict, conclusion, postscript.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Athenaeum copy: Stamped on title page: "Received Mar 10 1897."
- OCLC:
- 1161599
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