The Great Boer War

by Conan Doyle · Cluster: War and Empire · History · Nationalism and Patriotism

Abstract

Doyle’s detailed contemporary history of the Second Boer War (1899-1902), tracing the origins of the Boer nations from Dutch and Huguenot settlers through the Great Trek and the annexation disputes that led to conflict with the British Empire. The book narrates the war’s major battles and sieges chapter by chapter, going through sixteen revised editions as the campaign unfolded.

Capitoli / Chapters

• Chapter 39: THE END
• Chapter 1: THE BOER NATIONS
• Chapter 2: THE CAUSE OF QUARREL
• Chapter 3: THE NEGOTIATIONS
• Chapter 4: THE EVE OF WAR
• Chapter 5: TALANA HILL
• Chapter 6: ELANDSLAAGTE AND RIETFONTEIN
• Chapter 7: THE BATTLE OF LADYSMITH
• Chapter 8: LORD METHUEN’S ADVANCE
• Chapter 9: BATTLE OF MAGERSFONTEIN
• Chapter 10: THE BATTLE OF STORMBERG
• Chapter 11: BATTLE OF COLENSO
• Chapter 12: THE DARK HOUR
• Chapter 13: THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH
• Chapter 14: THE COLESBERG OPERATIONS
• Chapter 15: SPION KOP
• Chapter 16: VAALKRANZ
• Chapter 17: BULLER’S FINAL ADVANCE
• Chapter 18: THE SIEGE AND RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY
• Chapter 19: PAARDEBERG
• Chapter 20: ROBERTS’S ADVANCE ON BLOEMFONTEIN
• Chapter 21: STRATEGIC EFFECTS OF LORD ROBERTS’S MARCH
• Chapter 22: THE HALT AT BLOEMFONTEIN
• Chapter 23: THE CLEARING OF THE SOUTH-EAST
• Chapter 24: THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING
• Chapter 25: THE MARCH ON PRETORIA
• Chapter 26: DIAMOND HILL — RUNDLE’S OPERATIONS
• Chapter 27: THE LINES OF COMMUNICATION
• Chapter 28: THE HALT AT PRETORIA
• Chapter 29: THE ADVANCE TO KOMATIPOORT
• Chapter 30: THE CAMPAIGN OF DE WET
• Chapter 31: THE GUERILLA WARFARE IN THE TRANSVAAL: NOOITGEDACHT
• Chapter 32: THE SECOND INVASION OF CAPE COLONY
• Chapter 33: THE NORTHERN OPERATIONS FROM JANUARY TO APRIL, 1901
• Chapter 34: THE WINTER CAMPAIGN (APRIL TO SEPTEMBER, 1901)
• Chapter 35: THE GUERILLA OPERATIONS IN CAPE COLONY
• Chapter 36: THE SPRING CAMPAIGN (SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER, 1901)
• Chapter 37: THE CAMPAIGN OF JANUARY TO APRIL, 1902
• Chapter 38: DE LA REY’S CAMPAIGN OF 1902
• Chapter 39: THE END

Readability (prose)-149.2 Flesch ease86.3 FK grade89.9 Fog15% complex210.3 words/sent

Connections

Forms & Genres: Essay, Nonfiction Themes & Concepts: Empire and Imperialism, War and its Cost, Nationalism and Patriotism, Justice Right and Wrong, Freedom and Liberty, History Motifs: Blood, Horse Historical References: Boer War (Second South African War), British Empire, Second Boer War Settings: South Africa, Battlefield Topoi: Combat Strife, Last Stand