The General who almost prevented the Boer War

The General who almost prevented the Boer War - General Sir William Butler

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@philipopperman7570 5 ай бұрын

Great video as always Chris. As an Afrikaaner, you are right, there is still a lot of bad feelings towards Britain for the Anglo Boer war. Especially under the older people whose parents were children in the concentration camps. The younger generation have little ill will towards the UK,

@robert-trading-as-Bob69 5 ай бұрын

Ja, that's true. As an Engelsman in the army in the late 80's, I learned that we weren't united at all. Coming from Joburg, they called me a Red Russian, or Kommunis... and other names that I'm too polite to mention here. Ja, those were lekker times, training to fight SWAPO and Communism, but having to fight Afrikaaners first. Despite my love of Afrikaans and my pride in my Boer ancestors, I refused to speak Afrikaans for many years. I even turned my back on Christianity as I didn't want to be associated with those bigoted Christian Afrikaaners that still held hate in their hearts. It's only this year that I've finally begun talking to my new neighbors in Afrikaans again. About 10 years ago the Afrikaans side of the family contacted me about our common ancestor, a Scot, who emigrated here with the 1820 settlers, and married a Boer women, trekked from the Eastern Cape to the Transvaal in the 1830's. She was the first contact between our common surname since my grandfather married a Scots girl in the 1930's. Her father fought with the Khakis against the Boers. That was the 'sin' that broke our family.

@douglasherron7534 5 ай бұрын

@@robert-trading-as-Bob69 Something to do with salt I imagine....?

@robert-trading-as-Bob69 5 ай бұрын

@@douglasherron7534 Ja, soutpiel was the mildest of the many insults.

@robertkilloran9385 5 ай бұрын

Yes

@gorge5412 4 ай бұрын

How interesting, Mr. Robert! Thank you for sharing. Not only is yr family history important to you but also as significant social history.

@robert-trading-as-Bob69 5 ай бұрын

Thanks Chris, and YES to a video on the Fenian Raids into Canada. My Great-grandfather, a decendant of a Scot who emigrated to the Cape Colony in 1820, fought against the Jameson Raid, and served in a Boer Kommando against the British. Civilian family of mine are buried at Irene Concentration Camp, mostly young children, who succumbed to British indifference and neglect. After the war his eldest son, George, my grandfather, married a Scots girl who was the daughter of an officer who had fought with the Black Watch (42nd Highlanders) against the Boers. Over 100 later, the Afrikaans side of the family still don't speak to us, the English-speaking Annandales... In the 1930's, an English-speaking primary school was begun on the Springbok Flats of Northern Transvaal. They named the school after Lord Milner of all people! I went to Lord Milner School as a boarder, and felt that as wonderful as the school was, that it had been named out of spite as it was nestled in the middle of a predominantly Afrikaans area who still harbour hatred of Milner to this day.

@douglasherron7534 5 ай бұрын

Really interesting - so were your forebears part of the Grahamstown settlers?

@robert-trading-as-Bob69 5 ай бұрын

@@douglasherron7534 I recently moved home, and can't find the documents I collected, maps and all... but on my maternal side, the Holder family led one group and settled not far from the Thornhill led group which my paternal ancestor was a part of. This was the Albany Settlement, near Bathurst in the Eastern Cape.

@robert-trading-as-Bob69 5 ай бұрын

@@douglasherron7534 Please excuse my manners, I should have asked about your forebears as well.

@douglasherron7534 5 ай бұрын

@@robert-trading-as-Bob69 No problem. I'm Scottish, I just spent a lot of time in South Africa and am interested in the history. Also, travelled down the east coast - Palabora to Llandudno - on an epic summer holiday in 1998 - during which I stopped-off in Grahamstown.

@robert-trading-as-Bob69 5 ай бұрын

@@douglasherron7534 1998 was a good time to visit South Africa. It was also the year I visited England. I went to see my footie team with the supporters club, and then had a decision to make: Go to Scotland or go to London to visit my best friend who'd emigrated there in 1996. I chose my friend, and the Imperial War Museum. You've made me realise I've never travelled to Grahamstown or Port Elizabeth to see where my ancestor settled. I can't afford to go to Scotland, but I can visit my local heritage. Thank you for that.

@kaoskronostyche9939 5 ай бұрын

Pardon my Chinese but Ho Lee Phuc! I had NO idea the casualties were that huge. What carnage. Another story well told. Thank you.

@free_at_last8141 5 ай бұрын

Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, and Bang Ding Ow send their regards.

@kaoskronostyche9939 5 ай бұрын

@@free_at_last8141 May these esteemed, noble gentlemen receive my best regards in return.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@jeningle8288 5 ай бұрын

What an amazing man and life. Thanks Chris.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@ProfessorM-he9rl 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this post, he was a very brave man to voice his opinions in those days and deserves respect for trying so.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

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@foxcell 5 ай бұрын

A Rebel in a uniform a adventure a champs for the underdog another good video to watch in my hospital bed ❤

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

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@charliemansonUK 5 ай бұрын

Thanks Chris...searching for something to watch and failing and up pops this! This is an absolute ripping tale of men made different. The man was an absolute legend

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

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@HarryWHill-GA 5 ай бұрын

Bravo Zulu (Well Done) Chris. As if you have to ask. The answer is ALWAYS yes. If you think it is worth your time to make it, it will be well worth our time watching it. I love the Ashanti Ring videos.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@BootsontheTable 5 ай бұрын

A fascinating man. Great video as always Chris. Thanks

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@Thomo2461 5 ай бұрын

This soldier come adventurer is a boys own story much enjoyed. Thanks Chris.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

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@stefbaxter 2 ай бұрын

Excellent and a great voice for storytelling.

@TheHistoryChap 2 ай бұрын

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@charlesarmstrong5292 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for this erudite and complete picture of a truly great man. Would that Britain had more of his ilk at the time.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@coult001 5 ай бұрын

Great story again Chris, thank you!

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@alanspencer1631 15 күн бұрын

Yes please!

@TheHistoryChap 14 күн бұрын

OK.

@johnshort4405 5 ай бұрын

Thanks Chris, great story telling. I think there is a theory amongst some historians that if Britain had not fought the Second Boer War it may have lost the Great War. All wars are tragedies but the Boer War even more so because of the huge number of civilian deaths, both black and white.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@QALibrary 5 ай бұрын

I have learnt a lot today - thank you, Chris

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@AlbertComelles1970 5 ай бұрын

YES! An amazing story delivered once again! And thank you for his book references, I hope I shall have the chance to read them!

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@derekmurray1462 Ай бұрын

Excellent 👌

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@johnbrinsden8751 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@FranciscoPreira 5 ай бұрын

YES to a video on the Fenian Raids into Canada, it is a fascinating event, thanks for sharing.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@edl653 4 ай бұрын

Yes to the Fenian Raids. I am American and never heard of this.

@harryshriver6223 5 ай бұрын

Well done, amigo 👏 I really enjoyed this tale regarding the Impossible Irishman! He lived a life full of adventures and was an accomplished author. I will have to read some of works of literature, he was a champion of the indigenous people when no one gave one iota of a Goram bloody Hades, some would argue many still do not care. You certainly have some chutzpah my friend! 😊

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@phann860 5 ай бұрын

Another excellent video, keep them coming.

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@ludwigderzanker9767 5 ай бұрын

That Lady was a hell of a painter, Chris! Know all the pictures from my childhood but maybe I'm not the german average...Thanks and best regards! Ludwig and YES.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@johnt.kennedy3856 4 ай бұрын

Yes, please!

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@jonthinks6238 5 ай бұрын

Watched the whole series. A job well done TY. I have lots to cstch up on.

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@brendanmallon1479 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic yet again Chris would love to hear about the American Fenians more please love and respect from Ireland ❤

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@christopping5876 5 ай бұрын

Thank-you Chris for another excellent video .

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@nigelhamilton815 5 ай бұрын

Good insight as always. Thank you.

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@JoeRitchie-e5l 5 ай бұрын

Great video! So informative. It's too bad that he wasn't listened to; so many lives could have been saved and the troubles in South Africa may have been avoided.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@brianspendelow840 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Chris for this excellent video. I love your in depth treatments of little known characters from history. One addition I would like to make with regards to the Boer War is the contribution of Australia and New Zealand. The troops sent were not well treated by the British. The most famous example has been made into the movie Breaker Moran. It was this treatment that made the landing at Anzac Cove April 25th 1915 such a big deal. For the first time men from Australia and New Zealand fought in coherent units, under their own commanders, under their own flags. There is also a brilliant poem written about the war by Banjo Patterson. Not as well known as Waltzing Matilda, but for me far more moving. Written in 1901, The Last Parade is an anti- war poem about horses.

@arslongavitabrevis5136 5 ай бұрын

You are right! I remember watching "Breaker Moran" when I lived in Australia (1994-2005) What an excellent film! I also had the opportunity to read (and learn) quite a lot about the ANZACs. I have an enormous respect and admiration for the Aussies and the Kiwis. BTW, I am sure you know the moving song "And the band played Waltzing Matilda". The best version I have ever heard is by the Irish tenor John McDermott, is difficult to listen to without shedding a tear. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJzXe4GEgNJmeJI

@BrummieBard 5 ай бұрын

Edward Woodward AKA Grubby British MI5 Agent :"Callan" in the eponymously named black ⚫️ and white TV series where agent Callan often abuses his informant "Lonely" (his nickname) played "Breaker Morant" a horse 🐎 Regiment soldier who cared more for his horses 🐎 than for those starving and emaciated shells 🐚 of Humans who occupied the British invented and erected Transvaal and Orange 🍊 Free State Concentration Camps 🏕 where over 40000 black African prisoners of war and 20000 Boer Afrikaaner soldiers and families.....men women and children who were being routinely brutally and systematically starved to death in the Death Camps 🏕. So we can see it was the British and "Father of Birmingham" Old Joe Chamberlain (the Birmingham University clock ⏰️ tower the taĺlest Free Standing Campanile 🧍‍♀️ or Clock ⏰️ Tower in THE WORLD 🌎 😉 has much to answer for as the Liberal Unionist MP and Postmaster General and President of the Board of Trade the Warmonger Joe Chamberlain who founded my Alma Mater the University of Birmingham like Chris Ford I have a degree in history......Modern History and Politics from the University of Nottingham where I gained a "Desmond" a TUTU as the trite phrase goes......🎉😢😮😮❤

@johngoosen1962 5 ай бұрын

Eh....Breaker Morant was a cold blooded murderer. It's high time you go read what he had actually done instead of basing your knowledge off a romanticized movie.

@caeserromero3013 5 ай бұрын

@@johngoosen1962 100% correct. I watched the Film many years ago as a youngster and took it as gospel. It was only later when reading the actual history I learned that, not only was Morant and his unit responsible for many more deaths than the movie showed (such as execution of women and children) but also that far from being 'Scape-Goats of the Empire', the atrocities had actually been reported by AUSTRALIANS. It was fellow members of the BVC that reported the incidents to high command as they were appalled by the actions of their countrymen and didn't want Australia to live under the stain of such actions. The British were in fact forced to confront the issue and gave the only acceptable punishment, death for Morant and Hancock, whilst showing mercy to Whitton (who repaid that mercy with a slanderous book). Scapgoats of the Empire was like catnip for Australians and their genetic hatred of the English. They do seem to revel in victim hood and myth, such as the myth of the 'British drinking tea on the beach at Suvla bay whilst ANZACS died'. It made a great story line for the Movie Gallipoli, but it was total rubbish. I've always wondered why the Aussies can't just revel in their achievements (like the Canadians do) rather than harping on and on about (mostly invented) negatives. There was a very good Australian TV debate about Morant that you can find here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmHaan98eb6KZ9U

@caeserromero3013 5 ай бұрын

@@BrummieBard I'd recommend reading up a bit more about 'Concentration camps'. Firstly they were not a 'British invention'. Indian reservations were not much different (except that in Indian reservations the Indians were often SOLD blankets deliberately infected with diseases). However the 'Concentration camp' model used in South Africa was borrowed from that already in use (and found effective) during the Spanish American war of 1898 (and subsequent native rebellions against the US) in Cuba and the Philippines (as was the block-house system later on). Furthermore, the Boers were actually pretty keen on their people (especially women and children) being taken into the protective custody of the British (and they took a great deal of satisfaction that their folk were fed at the cost of the enemy) because the longer the conflict went on, they feared for their women folk alone on remote farms being at the mercy of vengeful natives. If you read primary sources, there is significant evidence of this (I recommend the publication: With the Flag to Pretoria by Harmsworth press which was published at the time of the war, week by week. I have read this myself as I inherited the volumes from my Great Grandfather via my Grandfather). Furthermore, the Boers were not being 'routinely and systematically starved'. That's just blatant and baseless propaganda. If you read up on the subject you find that the camps were simply initially overwhelmed and that the military had other priorities than efficiently running camps at the time. There was outrage back in Britain as soon as the first reports started to come in (not helped by anti-imperial propagandists who published photos taken from Indian famines and passed them off as photos from the SA camps). The Hobhouse commission led by campaigner Emily Hobhouse forced the govt to deal with the crisis and control of the camps was taken away from the army. As soon as that happened the conditions in the camps rapidly increased and eventually death rates were actually LOWER than the average pre war levels. Some camps even had schools and entertainment societies. Another aspect that is overlooked is that the Boer Commandos often took advantage of the lax British policy of 'Parole' where a captured Boer could 'Pledge allegiance' surrender his weapon (often an obsolete flintlock musket was handed in after the modern Mauser had been buried for later retrieval) and go free. Often sick or injured Boers would 'Surrender' and go into the camps for food and medicine (and to see their families) and then just slip sway back to their unit when recovered. There were many contemporary reports of dead Boers found with multiple 'Parole papers' on their person when killed in action. This 'soft hearted policy' ironically prolonged the war and the suffering. Finally, it should also be remembered that loyalist citizens were not even treated as well as the Boers. Loyalists whose homes had been destroyed by the Boers (of which there were many) were not given any assistance by the British. Boer businesses who had their goods requisitioned by the British (food stuff, chandlery, horses, waggons etc) were given official compensation receipts by the British and were handsomely compensated after the war. The Boers would give no such recompense to loyalists whose property they seized, yet would sign generous notes to the Boers whose equipment they took, knowing that the British would foot the bill at wars end. If you look at the Vereeniging treaty, the level of compensation paid to the Boers was astronomical. This kind of torpedoes the myth that the Brits wanted SA purely for monetary gain. There are quite a few books with good info but as a quick read, check out this link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment

@gertvanniekerk46 2 ай бұрын

Great video brilliantly presented and narrated-This was a war that haunts Afrikaners to this day because it was totally unnecessary for both sides The Boers losing Everything and Brave Tommy dying for a Shilling a day while the british imperialists and parliamentarians just carried on with the Enriched lives! Afrikaner.

@TheHistoryChap 2 ай бұрын

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@Lassisvulgaris 5 ай бұрын

Yes, please......

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@johnconnolly4262 4 ай бұрын

Great video and YES to the fenian video 👏

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@markymark3075 5 ай бұрын

Yes!

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@Foul-TemperedRodent 3 ай бұрын

The term "concentration camp" and "internment camp" are used to refer to a variety of systems that greatly differ in their severity, and architecture, and I held my breath when I read the comments. This is usually by military men trying to find a solution to a military problem and todays younger people confuse this with extermination camps or death camps. Its refreshing to see your channel is not filled with such people this must be down to you sir presenting the facts, congregation on having a great channel and audience.

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@stephenperry5849 5 ай бұрын

Another brilliant video, thanks Chris.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@thecanadiangunnut 5 ай бұрын

YES!

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@cynthiaalver 5 ай бұрын

Looking forward to your new videos. Thank you! Oh, and, YES .😊

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy it. A little-known story

@thedisabledwelshman9266 5 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap yes

@free_at_last8141 5 ай бұрын

Great job! I would love to hear any stories on American-Canadian skirmishes. That history has been largely ignored.

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@annoyedbrox4851 5 ай бұрын

I liked, for the algorithm, but I'll watch it later, anyways I appreciate the effort history chap

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

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@annoyedbrox4851 5 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap I loved your videos on Indian History (rebellion of '57)

@annoyedbrox4851 5 ай бұрын

@@deogiriyadav8399 main guzarish karta huun ki Yadav Ji aap apne samay ka aache se istimal karen

@ianprince6376 5 ай бұрын

I enjoyed the video thank you. Yes please to a video on the Finian raids

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@nathanappleby5342 5 ай бұрын

Yes, I'd be up for a video on the Fenian Raids. They involved Sir Garnet Wolseley on the British side, and I would really like to learn more about his involvement. Sir William Butler was one of the most well traveled officers in the Victorian Army. Wolseley did well to put his trust in Butler, a fellow Irish native. Wolseley in a way reminds me of Henry Halleck, a Union general who had a bad habit of deflecting blame onto others for faults which were his own. Butler was, without a doubt, one of the best officers in the Ashanti Ring. At 16:31, the way you shifted pages was new! It was nice he produced strong familial roots which served in both world wars. It was such a pity he was unable to prevent the Second Boer war from happening. Had he succeeded, A LOT would have been different, good (the Boers) and bad, (World War 1 British Army).

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@michaelward5228 5 ай бұрын

Enjoyed your video! A very interesting character with an incredible career covering many countries and conflicts across the globe. The gold and diamonds in South Africa offered opportunities to many to make fortunes and prevent anyone such as General Butler with the intention to act as a peacemaker and mediator from making any progress.

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@KevinRudd-w8s 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for that well told and fascinating piece of history. Some of todays politicians would do well to remember how right this man was in cautioning against military interventions before they make the same blunders as Rhodes and co.

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@maxreed2343 5 ай бұрын

Well of course it damn well has, Chris dear old chap, as I've STILL not even seen ANYTHING of them, the video history topics you say at the end, and not just them, but also the one about the Red River Expedition of 1870 which I haven't even looked at yet either. But now, once again thanks to YOU giving me the big push to need to do so, and of course the coverage of yet another amazing topic cover on a highly successful British military individual, this time on General Sir William Butler, I'll damn well get a move on on filling my military history love brain banks at last on EVERYTHING of the subjects you've reminded us of, the Boer War of 1899-1902, General Charles Gordon and the Nile Expedition, AND the Red River Expedition, cos once again you're just the superstar I could need the videos of when it comes to the need to teach myself about British military history conflicts/campaigns I was never taught about in school before

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@75RWM 5 ай бұрын

Yes, I look forward to you covering the Fenian raids.

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@majorronaldmandell7835 5 ай бұрын

Yes! By all means please do a segment on the Irish American raids on Canadian! I know nothing about them at all!!

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@billevans7936 5 ай бұрын

Yes...please ...enjoying video too

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@djtntmid 5 ай бұрын

Yes please

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@louvendran7273 4 ай бұрын

18:35 "Unity is strength" became the motto of the Union of South Africa & features on the coat of Arms which changed slightly in 1994. One lesrns something new everyday.

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@anvil5356 5 ай бұрын

History really would have been very different if Sir William Butler's view had been listened to. While the 2nd Boar war was expencive in both lives and money, without it the British army would never have learned the hard lessons that the Boar Commandos taught them, or made the changes that were needed to opperate in 'modern' warfare. After the 2nd Boar war the British army became (man for man) one of the most effective fighting forces in the world, rather than just the police force of the Empire which they had been up to this point. Equipment, training, marksmanship and even the system of command were all improved in the British army due to their experiance in the Orange free State. Officers in WW1 who were leading the British Expadtionary Forces in France 1914, and most importantly the Battalion commanders were mostly experianced in 'modern' warfare due to thier time in the Cape. If Butlers view had won out, the BEF really would have been the "Contemptible little army" the Kiaser spoke about, rather than the 'Old Contemptables' who stopped the German army in their tracks at 1st Ypers.

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@patrickrose1221 5 ай бұрын

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@hotmechanic222 5 ай бұрын

Looking forward to the video on the military hospital

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@deanjacobs1766 5 ай бұрын

YES

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@simonday3740 5 ай бұрын

Nice one Chris, yes to the Fenian raids.

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@MrLobstermeat 5 ай бұрын

What can I say! You must explore the Fenian raids! I had never even heard of these until now....Please

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@harryehney1314 5 ай бұрын

Yes.

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@lucianmorn7273 4 ай бұрын

Yes

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@tikkasako6.5 5 ай бұрын

Well done, an accurate account of the Madness and Murder of Empire (AKA profit by grabbing). I was fortunate to live amongst the Afrikaners for 22 years, and learnt their incredibly efficient language. Their cultural norms (from Dutch and Huguenot ancestors) are outstanding, their energy and efficiency in turning dry land into food was remarkable. Plus, their Mausers and Long Tom cannons outshot the Brits by several hundred metres. The Afrikaners 'lost' the war after the Brits torched their farms, stole their cattle and starved scores of thousands (as you note) of their women and children in 'Concentration Camps' (note to Hitler). Few Brits know of that torturous cost in lives and treasure.....all for nothing but the mining profits of the likes of Rhodes, Milner, Chamberlain and scores of their 'aristrocratic' ilk, as opposed to a penny paid for the life of the brave, charging Tommy. So goes, Victorian romanticism.....I do wish Butler had endured.

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@mikesellers1879 5 ай бұрын

Please do a video about the Irish/Union bunch vs. British Canada...I'm aware (a little) of the Irish involvement in our War of Independence...would like more details of the Irish Union involvement and the Canadian conflict...Many thanks !!!

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@andysvehiclehistorychannel 5 ай бұрын

Very enjoyable video love the famous paintings i'v never looked into who did them but now I don't have to 😃

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@ethanlewis1459 5 ай бұрын

Will you do videos on the West African Squadron and their role in Stopping Slavery

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@coolhand4114 5 ай бұрын

yes

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@rchas1023 5 ай бұрын

As a Liverpudlian, I have great interest in things Irish. The Fenians would be most interesting.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@phann860 5 ай бұрын

A video on the Fenian raids on Canada would be a good idea. How about a chap called Pellew, I read a book about him and he was an almost Cochrane character. Another Irishman, it is a pity that so much trouble could have been avoided if he was heeded.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@Johnny-Thunder 5 ай бұрын

Perhaps you could make a video about Francis Vere: a very succesful English military commander, but there's no YT video yet dedicated to him.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@maxsmyth4819 5 ай бұрын

Yes, I've never heard that part of US/Canada History

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@stanboyd5820 4 ай бұрын

Clouds and silver linings. The lessons, bitter lessons the British army learned in the Boer War are supposed to have transformed British military thinking and made the BEF of 1914 the finest army the British have ever deployed, or so I've heard.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@ciarandoyle4349 5 ай бұрын

General Butler's book, "The Light of the West", provides a good explanation of the underlying differences between the Irish and the English of his time (and perhaps of our own?), particularly in his chapter "Clan and Boat's Crew". The Fenian Raids on Canada would be a good subject for a video, and of course they didn't "work" from an Irish point of view. However, these raids did form part of the unplanned multi-generational "learning process" of the Irish independence movement which spanned the period 1845 to 1945. One may assert that the process culminated in the confirmation of Irish independence through a successful policy of (poorly) armed neutrality during WW2; Ireland being one of only five European countries to remain neutral throughout that conflict.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

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@jonthinks6238 5 ай бұрын

Do you know of the British Armies cemetery in western Pennsylvania? It's from "the French and Indian War" very picturesque site. Have a ceremony annually. Its called Bushy Run, lots of re-enactors. (Even French re-eactors, and white butted ibians) I would to see a series on the units histories.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video & for your interesting feedback. I had not heard about the cemetery in Western Pennsylvania. Thank you.

@jonthinks6238 4 ай бұрын

@TheHistoryChap sorry for speel check. Should have read ( white butted indians) not natives. There are several reenactments across the US & Canada. he⁰

@formwiz7096 5 ай бұрын

Learned a lot from this, thanks. And, definitely, yes. PS Where can I find a copy of that beautiful map of India at 2:49?

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed my video, sorry I can't remember where the map was from.

@formwiz7096 4 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap Thanks, anyway. I appreciate the effort.

@formwiz7096 4 ай бұрын

Found it! Wiki, no less, but it's one of several in the entry about the British Raj.

@Augh98-nt2zn 5 ай бұрын

As an Irishman, Yes.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy.

@wesleyphillips7744 5 ай бұрын

I would like to see your video on the Fienian raids. I would also recommend that you look at some of the videos of the BRITISH MUZZLELOADERS that also have a great deal about them.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@billevans7936 5 ай бұрын

I have book on her paintings....❤

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

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@kennethknoppik5408 5 ай бұрын

Yes to those Irish raids sounds interesting 🤔

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@DavidLindemuth 5 ай бұрын

Yes 5:01

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@HootOwl513 5 ай бұрын

I wonder if this Butler was any relation to Maj Gen Smedley D Butler USMC, MOH [X2]? Maj Gen Butler was the author of ''War is a Racket.''

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@willjohnson1273 5 ай бұрын

YES to a video on Fenian raids.

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@MrCannonfoder 3 ай бұрын

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@TheHistoryChap 3 ай бұрын

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@artfuldodger8655 Ай бұрын

Cecil Rhodes DID NOT send Jameson in to the SA Republic. Jameson ,emboldened by his military successes against the Matabele in "Rhodesia" and the Portuguese in Mocambique took it upon himself to invade the "Transvaal"

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@IndianaDel1 5 ай бұрын

Yes please on the Fenian raids 1866-71

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

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@mackenshaw8169 5 ай бұрын

The 2nd Boer War started when the Transvaal and the OFS, after years of semi covert planning and subversion and taking full advantage of the pacifistic and non threatening stance described in this video, invaded Cape - Natal. Their slogan was " Africa for the Afrikaneers". If Kruger did not launch this invasion then there would simply never have been a war.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

An interesting take on the situation. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts.

@mackenshaw8169 5 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap You're welcome. I recommend Chris Ask, "Kruger, kommandos and Kak" for a detailed rebuttal of the Pakenham consensus.

@stevestannard6004 4 ай бұрын

I thought it was Champion the wonder horse not wonder dog 😆

@TheHistoryChap 3 ай бұрын

Boom boom

@bobwilliams899 5 ай бұрын

Cover the Fenian Raids of course

@TheHistoryChap 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your reply

@theblackbear211 3 ай бұрын

Yes to the Fenian raids.

@TheHistoryChap 2 ай бұрын

Thanks, you may have seen my video by now

@ChildrensSongStorytimeCorner 24 күн бұрын

I wish those Fenians had succeeded as Canada has been finished off thanks to Trudeau and his mismanagement….we on a downward trajectory now we cannot recover from.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts.