A Diabolical Trap
During the South African Boer War, in the year 1900, an English major moved his battalion through the Free State Republic when he noticed a wounded Boer soldier entrenched on a very steep hill. He surrounded the hill and discovered that it could only be taken from one side.He sent two of his best men to take the Boer out, but even though there was plenty of cover, his two men came rolling down the hill very quickly... very dead; so he sent five men who suffered the same fate. After deliberating with his captains he sent ten men who also fell; these were followed by fifty who all came rolling down the hill, as dead as all the others.
Fearing that his men might lose morale, he ordered one hundred men up the hill. Ten minutes later they too lay dead at the foot of the hill, but one was still alive; mortally wounded. “Watch out, it is a trap,” he croaked before he expired. “There are two of them.”
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Good story...
Hi all!
My grandfather told us the most wonderful stories of his exploits during the Boer war. All the English that he captured single-handedly, etc. It was only when he died in 1996 that I realized that he was born in July 1901; just two months after the war ended!
but anyway, this time, nobody has guns, only the rest of the world, so, I guess, they wont be able to pull themselves out this time,
The time is near I think
clever crafty move.
It was the cause of a lot of other things that went wrong in this country. The Afrikaner was scared that it would happen again; he just took it out on the wrong people. The shooting of the striking white miners was the last straw.
I knew after the boer war he was a straight collaborator to the british governments, not that way.