proved vital in a war where mobility proved vital to the British in an increasingly bitter guerrilla war against a mobile enemy who knew the ground intimately.

The Marlborough Barracks housed the 6th Reserve Cavalry ... from the Curragh, British forces were under the command of General Lowe. Lowe was a veteran of the Boer War and had retired from ...

Relentlessly, history rolls on and events that were once within reach of human memory can no longer be recalled.

This is the original for reproduction. Cavalry are in the field escorting the observation balloon, riding hard (dead horse, bl) Drawing depicting the use of a military balloon during the Boer War / F.

The Second Boer War began in 1899 in the south of Africa. It was fought between the two Boer Republics and the British Empire. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to ...

The Marlborough Barracks housed the 6th Reserve Cavalry ... from the Curragh, British forces were under the command of General Lowe. Lowe was a veteran of the Boer War and had retired from ...