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Thanks for your help, Martin.
Is it true that Fred died of pneumonia caught while on strike against Winston Churchill's refusal to give the cabbies a rise?
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Didn't know about the link with Carrington. Do you know what Hitch did between his discharge in 1879 and his incident at the Institute?
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Many Thanks, Martin.
You are quite right - I had Hicks-Beach in mind.
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Does anyone have any info about the particular circumstances of the theft of Hicks' VC. I know he worked at the United Services Institute, but some further details would help.
Thanks
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Hi Damian,
You are right on many counts and I'm sorry if I sounded dismissive of those historians who did such a lot of work on southern African history. I did not mean to be - yet in turn it is rar ...
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Hi Peter,
Marksist is about right. Among her wilder claims is that Rorke's Drift was - wait for it - and you can look this up in the Cambridge History of Africa (D.Fage was the Editor) - a Zulu vict ...
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Hi Rich,
The Russians were making plenty of mischief in the Balkans and Afghanistan but had drawn back after suffering a major diplomatic defeat at the Congress of Berlin in July 1878. They then fou ...
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I'm hoping to get something out in Feb 2009.
Damian
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Hi Rich,
Its an interesting idea but I don't think that war with the Zulus was on Frere's mind at all until July 1878. I think that his preferred solution was a confederation of the ZAR, OFS, Natal ...
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Dear Harman and TonyJones,
Actually I wrote that piece for the British Empire website a few years ago. Norman Etherington was a respected South African historian who organised a conference on the AZ ...
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Hi Tony,
I don't think that we can absolve Frere from responsibility for starting the Zulu war although he certainly carried the can for a very dishonest Hicks-Beach. I think you are right about the ...
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Hi,
Just a couple of points. Firstly, Frere did not create the conditions for civil war in Zululand - that honour goes to Wolseley and Gladstone as I argued in an article called "Who killed Cet ...
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Hi Rich,
That is a very big question. I can only say that he was a defence expert who wrote the first real plan for the defence of India. He freed the slaves of Zanzibar and built Kracahi and Bomba ...
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In 1807 the Royal Navy fought a major action at Lissa in the Adriatic. It is now known as Vis - and has a cricket club.
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Just a short excerpt.
"Although he had been instrumental in putting in motion the raising of the colonial mounted volunteers by the Peace Preservation Act of 1878, Frere never really had much ...
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