![]() ![]() As both are comparatively short and as the one follows on from the other, they have since been published together under the title The Boer War. He sailed from Southampton aboard the Dunottar Castle on 14 October and reached Cape Town on the 31st.įor the next eight months he filed his copy regularly for the Morning Post and it is these dispatches which were later reprinted in book form as London to Ladysmith via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton's March. ![]() Winston Churchill, though he had left his Regiment, the 4th Hussars, in the previous March, was eager as ever to be within the sound of guns and wasted no time in getting himself accredited to the Morning Post as war correspondent. The first shots of the Boer War were fired at Kraaipan on 12 October 1899. Winston Churchill's eye-witness account of the Boer War. ![]()
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