The Siege of Mafeking was a battle for the British-occupied military outpost of Mafeking in South Africa during the Second Boer War. The British stood firm against a much larger Boer force for 217 ...

A. Hamiltons The Siege of Mafeking (1900) is a gripping historical account of the siege of the town of Mafeking during the Second Boer War. Hamiltons detailed narrative style immerses the reader in ...

Starting October 1899, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell and his small garrison of British colonial troops held the Boer forces from the railway town of Mafeking for 217 days. It’s now regarded as an ...

A GRIPPING diary which belonged to one of the soldiers involved in the heroic British rearguard during the Siege of Mafeking has come to light. The 15,000 word diary, filling four notebooks, was ...

A diary detailing a young girl's experiences during the Siege of Mafeking 100 years ago has been unearthed in a Scottish library. Annie Rayne, whose family came from Arbroath, wrote an account of the ...

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A 217-day siege began at Mafeking, the Boers pulling in their big artillery, including one of four Creusot 94-pound cannons, the most advanced piece of military hardware of the day, which they used to ...

In which the author, exclusively for CounterPunch, goes by train but also by ferry, bicycle, plane, and rental car from Nairobi, Kenya, to Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa. This is Part VIII.

Heartless thieves have stolen a 120-year-old commemoration of a Boer War siege that was bolted down at one of the oldest war memorials in Victoria, with a Yarra Valley war historian saying the missing ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Obverse Image: British coat of arms ...

The information centre on the outskirts of Mafeking is new. It has recently been opened by Popo Molefe, the premier of this region. There are kiosks, at present shuttered, where local artists will ...