Together father and daughter created a perception that Rose Innes was a pawn in a politically motivated abuse of the Colony's legal system and that he was used to silence a troublesome critic of British imperial policy in South Africa and the methods used by the British army. By analysing ...
administeredby them afterward; this is why it would be excluded from the Union of South Africa in 1910. The most astonishing aspect of the war, perhaps, is that it was a war between groups of white peoples in a subcontinent with a largely Black African population that both sides generally ...
such as those adopted by Mississippi in 1890 and by South Carolina and Louisiana in 1895. Only a few Southern Black elected officials lingered on. No African American was to serve in the U.S. Congress for three decades after the departure of George H. White ofNorth Carolinain 1901. ...
The aim of the war is to establish “a United South Africa, of one of the great empires (rijken) of the world… an Afrikaans republic in South Africa stretching from Table Bay to the Zambesi”. On the British front, Joseph Chamberlain concludes his speech to Parliament on the eve of war...
Empire headed for Extinction– colonialism in Asia and Africa Cold War: 1945-49– Stalin, Europe, the U.S. and revolution in China The Korean War– occupation, China intervenes, negotiations Cold War: 1953-60– communism and the Eisenhower years ...
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Turn of the century Imperialism, 1894 to 1908– Boxer Rebellion, empire in Africa, France in Vietnam, Russo-Japanese War Toward World War One, 1901-08– tradition and change, alliances, Germany's failed diplomacy, Franz Joseph vs Serbs ...
internment statistics vary among states depending on cultural influences, localized public opinion, pressure groups, and the shapers of policy: Throughout 1939-45, 2.9% of all eligible male enemy aliens in Victoria were interned, 11.7% in New South Wales, 15.6% in South Australia, 32.6% in Wes...
Northumberland Fusiliers in 1901. The Sergeant is wearing the Queen’s South Africa Medal and the King’s South Africa Medal: Battle of Stormberg 9th/10th December 1899 in the Boer War The British artillery was a powerful force in the field, underused by commanders with little training in the...
Dr James Harold Patterson (1873-1914), son of W.and Sarah Patterson of Mayfield, Launceston, qualified as a surgeon in Edinburgh U.K. He served as Surgeon-Lieutenant(later Captain) with the 5th Victorian Rifles in the Boer War in South Africa in 1901-2 and was awarded the Queen's medal...