![]() The trouble had begun more than thirty years earlier, when diamonds and, later, gold were discovered in the Transvaal, one of two Boer republics. War, however, like wealth, had found them. On the contrary, they wanted nothing more than to be left alone. Of Dutch descent, the deeply religious Boers had not wanted war. Although the Boer War had begun just a month earlier, the British had already learned a painful lesson: the harder it was to find the Boers, the more dangerous they were likely to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() Where exactly they were, however, and whether they would attack, remained a dark, seemingly impenetrable mystery. MaFinest Hour 171, Winter 2016 By Candice MillardĪs the armoured train inched along the low, rolling hills and flat, open spaces of the South African veldt on the morning of 15 November 1899, every man on board knew that the enemy was watching. ![]()
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