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The Transvaal Rebellion : The First Boer War, 1880-1881.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (286 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317868460
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Transvaal RebellionDDC classification:
  • 968.2046
LOC classification:
  • DT2354 .L33 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of maps and plates -- Acknowledgements -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Map of the Transvaal -- Introduction: A clash of military cultures -- 1 The Imperial factor and the Transvaal -- 2 The situation in the Transvaal Territory in 1880 and the outbreak of rebellion -- 3 The Boer and British military systems -- 4 In open rebellion: the Boers seize the military initiative -- 5 'Cribbed, cabined, confined, bound-in': the blockaded garrisons -- 6 The Natal Field Force -- 7 Laing's Nek -- 8 Ingogo -- 9 Seeking a way out of the war -- 10 Majuba -- 11 Peace and betrayal -- Conclusion: 'Remember Majuba!' -- Select bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This account of the First Boer War of 1881-1881 shows how the British army was jolted out of its complacency by the effective fire and movement tactics of the Boers and the lethal effects of modern small arms. John Laband demonstrates how the Transvaal rebellion highlighted the problems of imperial overreach in a far-flung empire, and emphasised the many divisive political, ideological, racial, social and economic tensions in nineteenth-century South Africa which prefigured the great crisis of the Boer War of 1899-1902.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of maps and plates -- Acknowledgements -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Map of the Transvaal -- Introduction: A clash of military cultures -- 1 The Imperial factor and the Transvaal -- 2 The situation in the Transvaal Territory in 1880 and the outbreak of rebellion -- 3 The Boer and British military systems -- 4 In open rebellion: the Boers seize the military initiative -- 5 'Cribbed, cabined, confined, bound-in': the blockaded garrisons -- 6 The Natal Field Force -- 7 Laing's Nek -- 8 Ingogo -- 9 Seeking a way out of the war -- 10 Majuba -- 11 Peace and betrayal -- Conclusion: 'Remember Majuba!' -- Select bibliography -- Index.

This account of the First Boer War of 1881-1881 shows how the British army was jolted out of its complacency by the effective fire and movement tactics of the Boers and the lethal effects of modern small arms. John Laband demonstrates how the Transvaal rebellion highlighted the problems of imperial overreach in a far-flung empire, and emphasised the many divisive political, ideological, racial, social and economic tensions in nineteenth-century South Africa which prefigured the great crisis of the Boer War of 1899-1902.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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