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A Kind of Victory
Author | : Craig Wilcox |
Publisher | : National Library of Australia |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0642278571 |
In 1899, on the eve of the Boer War, Captain Charles Cox from Parramatta took 100 Australian cavalrymen to train with the British army in England. These military apprentices became British soldiers as well as Australian ones. But everything went wrong. Publicity got in the way of cavalry drill which, in any case, the Australians were allowed to shirk. The debacle ended with Cox volunteering his little command for the Boer War, with the British making him get the consent of his government and his men, and finally with a murder on a lonely farm in South Africa. There was no more talk of Australian fighting men morphing into colonial members of the British army. Still, the newspapers said the venture was a brilliant success, that Australians had proved themselves natural warriors, that the British Empire was stronger for what happened-all of which Australians rejoiced to hear. It was, in the end, a kind of victory.
Bibliotheca Lindesiana
Author | : James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Postage stamps |
ISBN | : |
Catalogue of Current Periodicals Received at the Public Library of Victoria
Author | : Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Australian periodicals |
ISBN | : |
Catalogue of the Philatelic Library of the Earl of Crawford, K.T.
Author | : James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford |
Publisher | : London : Philatelic Literature Society |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Postage stamps |
ISBN | : |
Votes & Proceedings
Author | : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1494 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : New South Wales |
ISBN | : |