The Autobiography of the British Soldier: From Agincourt to Basra, in His Own Words by John Lewis-Stempel

Author:John Lewis-Stempel [Lewis-Stempel, John]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Endeavour Press Ltd.
Published: 2014-02-04T05:00:00+00:00

The defeat at Spion Kop was a sledge hammer blow to the cheerful, insolent confidence of Victorian Britain. Football fans in Liverpool, in ironic acknowledgement, named the high terraced end of the local stadium 'the Kop'.

Spion Kop, at least, stirred the British government into action. Out to South Africa were dispatched Lord 'Bob' Roberts and Lord Kitchener, who lifted the sieges of Mafeking, Ladysmith and Kimberley and occupied the Boer towns of Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and Pretoria.

Still the Boers would not give up. Mounted on their ponies and clutching their vicious Mauser rifles (with smokeless powder, which made their firing difficult to spot), Boer 'commandos' fought a two-year-long guerrilla war.

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