12th Lancers
9th Brigade
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african
Ashanti War
Author_Stephen M. Miller
Black Watch
Boer Force
Boer Lines
Boer Position
British army operational analysis
British military reform
cape
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Category=NHD
Category=NHH
Category=NHW
Christiaan De Wet
colonial military history
colony
De Wet
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eq_history
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eq_nobargain
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eq_society-politics
free
Free State
Guards Brigade
Highland Brigade
imperial strategy
Imperial Yeomanry
Lord Methuen
modder
Modder River
Mounted Infantry
Naval Brigade
Night March
orange
Orange River
Pioneer Column
river
second industrial revolution impact
Secretary Of State
south
South African War
St Division
state
transitional military tactics
Victorian era warfare
war
Western Transvaal
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780714649047
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This study analyzes the readiness of the British military establishment for war in 1899 and its performance in the South African War (1899-1902). It focuses on the career of Field Marshal Paul Sanford, 3rd Baron Methuen, whose traditional military training, used so effectively in Queen Victoria's small wars, was put to the test by the modern challenges of the South African War. A subsidiary aim of this work is to correct and refine the historical consensus that Methuen's campaing in the South African War was plagued by practical errors and poor judgement. The South African War was a crucial transitional episode in the history of the British army. Unlike Great Britain's other expeditions, it required the concentrated resources of the entire empire. It was a modern war in the sense that it employed the technology, the weaponry, the communications, and the transportation of the second industrial revolution.
