[Photo] Winston Churchill as a reporter for the Morning Post newspaper during the Boer War, 1899
[Photo] Winston Churchill as a reporter for the Morning Post newspaper during the Boer War, 1899 | World War II Database
Persistence Wins: The Battle for Spion Kop
What do Mahatma Gandhi, Arthur Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, Baden Powell (founder of the Boy Scouts), and Rudyard Kipling have in common? They were all participants in the 2nd Boer War which pitted the British Empire and the Cape Colony against the Boers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. This was a brutal war, one in which the Boers initially held the upper hand but which later devolved into a guerilla war that the heavily outnumbered Boers eventually lost. A battle early in the…