- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Abbreviations
- Note on Terminology
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Chapter 1 The Shadow of Isandlwana -
Chapter 2 Bushman's River Pass -
Chapter 3 Bopedi -
Chapter 4 Sobhuza's Dream -
Chapter 5 ‘The Boers Are Killing Me’ -
Chapter 6 The ‘Black Conspiracy’ -
Chapter 7 EmaXhoseni -
Chapter 8 ‘They Must Be Humbled and Subdued’ -
Chapter 9 ‘I Am in a Corner’ -
Chapter 10 Calling in the ‘amaJohnnies’ -
Chapter 11 Not the ‘White Man's Dogs’ -
Chapter 12 ‘Rather Like a Rat Hunt’ -
Chapter 13 A ‘Hideous and Disgusting Place’ -
Chapter 14 Resisting with ‘Fixity of Purpose’ -
Chapter 15 ‘The Ground Was His’ -
Chapter 16 Preparing to ‘Draw the Monster's Teeth and Claws’ -
Chapter 17 The Meat of Heroes -
Chapter 18 ‘We Shall Go and Eat Up the White Men’ -
Chapter 19 ‘How Can We Give You Mercy?’ -
Chapter 20 ‘No Quarter, Boys!’ -
Chapter 21 ‘The Army Is Now Thoroughly Beaten’ -
Chapter 22 ‘Short, Sharp and Decisive’ -
Chapter 23 Paying the Price - Bibliography of Printed Works Cited in the Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index
‘The Boers Are Killing Me’
‘The Boers Are Killing Me’
- Chapter:
- (p.59) Chapter 5 ‘The Boers Are Killing Me’
- Source:
- Zulu Warriors
- Author(s):
John Laband
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter discusses the Boers of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek or South African Republic and their campaign against the resurgent Maroteng. The Boers were a militia with no structured military training. By the late 1850s, Boers were operating like mounted infantry and in the 1870s acquired the best weapons technology available.
Keywords: Boers, Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, South African Republic, Maroteng, militia, infantry, weapons
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- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Abbreviations
- Note on Terminology
-
Chapter 1 The Shadow of Isandlwana -
Chapter 2 Bushman's River Pass -
Chapter 3 Bopedi -
Chapter 4 Sobhuza's Dream -
Chapter 5 ‘The Boers Are Killing Me’ -
Chapter 6 The ‘Black Conspiracy’ -
Chapter 7 EmaXhoseni -
Chapter 8 ‘They Must Be Humbled and Subdued’ -
Chapter 9 ‘I Am in a Corner’ -
Chapter 10 Calling in the ‘amaJohnnies’ -
Chapter 11 Not the ‘White Man's Dogs’ -
Chapter 12 ‘Rather Like a Rat Hunt’ -
Chapter 13 A ‘Hideous and Disgusting Place’ -
Chapter 14 Resisting with ‘Fixity of Purpose’ -
Chapter 15 ‘The Ground Was His’ -
Chapter 16 Preparing to ‘Draw the Monster's Teeth and Claws’ -
Chapter 17 The Meat of Heroes -
Chapter 18 ‘We Shall Go and Eat Up the White Men’ -
Chapter 19 ‘How Can We Give You Mercy?’ -
Chapter 20 ‘No Quarter, Boys!’ -
Chapter 21 ‘The Army Is Now Thoroughly Beaten’ -
Chapter 22 ‘Short, Sharp and Decisive’ -
Chapter 23 Paying the Price - Bibliography of Printed Works Cited in the Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index
