Category: Boer War

Back being the operative word. Much to the amusement of my chums, I did my back in whilst carrying the Christmas tree into the house in early December, something which has stopped me sitting at my desk for any length...

We returned to our play-testing for our Boer War lest evening with the battle of Belmont.  Historically this battle was the first real action in the attempt to relieve Kimberly, and saw a British night attack go astray due to...

With the failure of General Wynne’s attack on Hedge Hill to achieve a significant breakthrough the Boer positions along the Tugela appeared to be as impenetrable as they had been two month previous.  It is true that in the last...

The failure of the attacks at Colenso in December, Spion Kop in December and Vaalkrantz in early February 1900 had left the British public and Lord Roberts perplexed as to exactly what General Sir Redvers Buller was doing on the...

We played an interesting refight last evening on Lard Island, stimulated by some of the recent debate on web fora such as PMT regarding game and simulation.  One of the things that I felt interesting about those debates was to...

In the absence of other correspondents it falls upon me to relay, in some small measure, details of the action fought this day, the 19th of January 1900, on the Rangeworthy Heights to the south west of Ladysmith in the...

Circumstance rather than design dictated, as is oft the way, that I should be present at Elandslaagte on the morning of the 20th of October 1899.  Within several hours of the conclusion of the action at Talana Hill, General Yule...

It was, of course, in the aftermath of the Baskerville affair that Holmes and I were approached by the colonial government in the Cape Colony.  It was no surprise that his notoriety had reached the southern hemisphere, however to be...