EPISODE · Nov 12, 2017 · 23 MIN
Episode 8 - The Boers move south and Winston Churchill is captured
from The Anglo-Boer War · host Desmond Latham
It’s just over a month since hostilities were declared formally on 10th October 1899, a number of battles have been fought that dispelled British notions of a quick and easy war. Thousands of casualties have been reported and there’s some consternation in London. By this time, about a third of the 47 000 strong Army Corps which British Commander General Redvers Buller would lead had arrived in Cape Town and some had been sent on to Durban to prepare to march to relieve Ladysmith. And in the midst of all this, Winston Churchill is taken prisoner.
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It’s just over a month since hostilities were declared formally on 10th October 1899, a number of battles have been fought that dispelled British notions of a quick and easy war. Thousands of casualties have been reported and there’s some consternation in London. By this time, about a third of the 47 000 strong Army Corps which British Commander General Redvers Buller would lead had arrived in Cape Town and some had been sent on to Durban to prepare to march to relieve Ladysmith. And in the midst of all this, Winston Churchill is taken prisoner.
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