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Title: War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization : The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Harding, William
Subjects: Boer War
Publisher: Chicago : Dominion Co
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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sort of basis. But there are facts which have never yet been published, and whichthrow a new light over the whole history—facts which must shameevery civilized nation, but particularly England, which pretends alwaysto be the first to confer European civilization upon savage tribes. It is well known how Matabeleland was conquered by the Char-tered Company. They simply went to the poor Matabeles with Maximguns and killed nearly the whole of the badly-armed Matabele nation.When but a few of them were left the Chartered Company declaredthemselves masters and owners of that country. To treat the Boers to the same kind of civilization was the purposeof Dr. Jameson. Yet knowing by experience that the Boers werebetter shooters than the Matabele Kaffirs, the whole force of Dr. Jame-son was armed with explosive bullets. Many thousands of cartridgesloaded with explosive bullets were found in the possession of the prison-ers and also on the battlefield. They were all of the latest pattern. 238
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OFFICERS IN THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA SERVICE. Colonel R. S. S. Baden-Powell. Brigadier-General H. A. Macdonaltl. A Typical Veteran British Officer. Captain Rivers. Major-General Sir Walter Butler.

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