Lord Methuen and the British Army

Lord Methuen and the British Army

Author: Stephen M. Miller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1136322833

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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.


The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): White man’s war, black man’s war, traumatic war

The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): White man’s war, black man’s war, traumatic war

Author: André Wessels

Publisher: UJ Press

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13:

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Based on many years of research with regard to the Anglo-Boer War, this book is essential reading for anyone who would like to know more about the most devastating conflict that has thus far been waged between white people in Southern Africa. However, with due course, this war also involved more and more black, brown and, to some extent, Asian people.