Battle Story: Mafeking 1899-1900

Edmund Yorke (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2014
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-5566-9 (ISBN)

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The Siege of Mafeking remains one of the most renowned actions of the Second Boer War, with the British Army defeating a Boer force of up to 8,000 men with barely 1,500 troops. In a siege that lasted 217 days, Robert Baden-Powell and his troops withheld attack from the Boers against all the odds and Mafeking was finally relieved on 17 May 1900. It caused much public excitement in Victorian Britain, with Baden-Powell emerging as a national hero. If you want to understand what happened and why – read Battle Story. One of the most famous, if controversial, battles of the Second Boer War – memorialised across South Africa, Canada and the United Kingdom The Siege of Mafeking was instrumental in turning Robert Baden-Powell (later founder of the Scouts) into a national hero Includes significant contribution from South African, Canadian and Australian troops.

Edmund Yorke is the author of several other Battle Story titles, including Isandlwana 1879 and Rorke's Drift 1879.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2014
Zusatzinfo	60 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	125 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7509-5566-X / 075095566X
ISBN-13	978-0-7509-5566-9 / 9780750955669
Zustand	Neuware