The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... Boers who coveted the cornlands and even Basuto- land itself for its immunity from the horse sickness , while Moshesh , on his side , insisted that the Boers were allowed in his lands only by his grace and began to give broad hints that ...
... Boers who coveted the cornlands and even Basuto- land itself for its immunity from the horse sickness , while Moshesh , on his side , insisted that the Boers were allowed in his lands only by his grace and began to give broad hints that ...
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... Boers over the Vaal , and massed three corps of his trained impis on the frontier . The Boers , with but twelve shillings and sixpence in the Treasury , no credit and no organised military force , apparently lay at his mercy.2 It is ...
... Boers over the Vaal , and massed three corps of his trained impis on the frontier . The Boers , with but twelve shillings and sixpence in the Treasury , no credit and no organised military force , apparently lay at his mercy.2 It is ...
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... Boers were becoming reconciled to the inevitable.1 On his advice , troops were withdrawn from South Africa , whilst he himself went home . Kruger and Joubert wrote to Gladstone begging him to satisfy the expectations roused by his ...
... Boers were becoming reconciled to the inevitable.1 On his advice , troops were withdrawn from South Africa , whilst he himself went home . Kruger and Joubert wrote to Gladstone begging him to satisfy the expectations roused by his ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari 569 | 15 |
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