My Experience of the Boer War, by Count Adelbert von Sternberg

The Anglo Boer War (also known as the South African War) was fought between the armies of Great Britain and those of the old Transvaal and Orange Free State Republics, between the years 1899 - 1903.

This book recounts the author's experiences as a war correspondent, on the side of the Boer armies, during the war. It gives a very clear discussion of the way that military actions were carried out at the time, as well as some detailed discussion how how military strategy should be amended for "future wars".

The book reads easily, with a flowing narrative and is compelling reading even for 'non-serious' readers on military strategy or the Boer War.

First published in 1901 by Longmans, Green & Co. No copyright. Available in printable PDF format.

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Contents:

Introduction by Lieut.-Col G.F.R. Henderson

1. The Political Situation in the Transvaal in 1896

2. My Departure

3. From Cairo to Pretoria

4. The Transvaal during the War

5. Bloemfontein and Jacobsdal

6. Camp life on the Modder River

7. Till my capture at Paardeberg Drift

8. General Reflections

9. Military Reflections

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Places & Rivers mentioned in this book (alphabetical order):

Aden; Alexandersfontein; Algiers; Athens; Australia; Austria; Beira; Belmont; Benowdriftsfontein; Berlin; Bisset's Farm; Blaauwbank Drift; Black Sea; Bloemfontein; Boshof; Bosphorus; British Isles; Brussels; Buda Pesth (Budapest); Cairo; Canada;; Cape Colony; Cape Gardefui; Cape Town; Central Europe; Colenso; Colesberg; Constantinople; Cracow; Crocodile River; Dar-es-Salaam; De Aar; Delagoa Bay; Dundee; Durban; England/Great Britain; France; Free State; Germany; Glencoe; Hanover, Germany; India; Jacobsdal; Johannesburg; Kalkfontein Farm; Kampferdamm Mine; Kimberley; Klip Drift; Koedoesberg (Riet River); Koffeefontein; Komatiport (Komati Poort); Krugersdorp; Ladysmith; London; Lorenzo Marques; Madagascar; Mafeking; Magersfontein; Mashonaland; Matabeleland; Modder River; Mozambique; Natal; New Zealand; Nile River; Odessa; Olifantsfontein; (Orange) Free State; Orange River; Paardeberg Drift; Paris; Pietersburg (Petrusburg); Port Said; Portugal; Pretoria; Rama/Ramdam; Red Sea; Riet River; Ronddavel Drift; Russia; Scotland; Seuz Canal; Sinai; Smyrna; Soudan/Sudan; Southhampton; Stormberg; Tanga; Transvaal Republic; Tugela River; Vienna; Waterval Drift; Waterval-onder; Witwatersrand; Zanzibar

People mentioned in this book (alphabetical order):

Albrecht, Major; Arnoldi, Commissary; Augenstein, Herr (Israelite soldier from Frankfort, on Boer side); Baden-Powell; Barnato, Barney; Beit, Alfred; Biermann, German Consul; Bilse, Mr., (Insurance official in Jacobsdal); Borges, Jules; Botha, Genl. Louis; Buller, Sir Redvers; Bullock, Colonel; Burger, S. M.; Carleton, Colonel; Castro, Sefior de Meyrelles de Canto de, (Governor of Beira); Charles I; Charles II; Coventry, Capt., (Battle of Krugersdorp); Cromwell (Puritan Leader); Cronje, Genl Gert; Daily, Mr., (Staff Officer to Genl. Schoeman); De Beer, Commandant (Boer army); De La Rey, Genl.; De Wet, Genl. C. R.; Dewitz, Baron; Doherr, Capt.; Dressier, Mr.; Du Toit, Genl. (Boer General); Engelberts, Herr (young Hollander fighting on the Boer side); Gablenz, Field Marshal; Gallopeau, Capt.; Grant, General U; Grobler, Piet; Hadik, Count; Heimann, Dr., (physician to Pres. Paul Kruger); Henderson, Lieut-Col. G. F. R., (Introduction by); Henry, Colonel; Herzog, J. B. M.; Heyster, Lieut. von, (Boer Artillery Officer); Hildebrand, Dr.; Hirsch (Austrian Consul to the Cape Colony); James II; Jameson, Dr.; Jorison, Mr. (Commissary to Genl. Cronje's army); Joubert, Genl. P. J.; Kekewich, General; Kellersperg, Baron; Kitchener, Lord; Koch, S. H. M.; Kolbe, Genl. (Free State General); Krause, Dr; Kruger, President Paul; Kruger, Tjart (Pres Paul Kruger's son); Kuttner, Dr., (Physician on Boer side); Leon, Mr. (Representative to the Boer armies from the Creusot arms factory); Leyds, Dr. ; Louis XIV; Manteuffel, Genl.; Methuen, Lord; Meyer, Lucas; Moltke; Morpurgo, Baron, Napoleon Bonaparte; Noris, Count Sizzo; Papenfuss, Mr., (Landrost in Bloemfontein); Penzhorn, (2nd A.D.C. to Genl Cronje); Prinsloo, Genl.; Ramberg, Baron; Reitz, F.W.; Reitzenstein, Baron; Rhodes, Cecil John, (Capitalist, South Africa); Roberts, Lord; Rosebery; Rosenberg, Genl.; Rosli, Joseph, (Author's servant); Salisbury; Schiel, Colonel; Schoeman, Genl.; Seilern, Count; Sheridan; Spence, Mr.; Steinmetz, Genl. Karl von; Steyn, President M. T., (President of the Free State Republic); Stoell, Mr. (Proprietor of the Free State Hotel); Stollreiter, Dr., (German Consul to the Free State Republic); Strakosch, Herr, (Austrian businessman in South Africa); Sultan of Zanzibar; Villebois, Colonel, (Representative to the Boer armies from the Creusot arms factory); Vjhura, Mr., (Businessman in Bloemfontein area); Water, Mr T., (Colonial Secretary and Minister of the Interior, Cape Colony); Wauchope, General; Wavell, Genl. (British General); Wellington, Lord; Werner, Sir Julius; Wessels, Genl.; William II, Kaizer of Germany (indirectly mentioned wrt his telegram to Pres Kruger, following the Jameson Raid); William of Orange; Zeppelin, Count

Wars, battles & skermishes mentioned in this book:

Battle of Belmont

Battle of Bidassoa (mentioned in text)

Battle of Colenso

Battle of Douro (mentioned in text)

Battle of Dundee (mentioned in text)

Battle of Elandslaagte (mentioned in text)

Battle of Glencoe (mentioned in text)

Battle of Graspan (mentioned in text)

Battle of Gravelotte (mentioned in text)

Battle of Koedoesberg (Riet River)

Battle of Koniggratz (mentioned in text)

Battle of Krugersdorp (mentioned in text)

Battle of Ladysmith (mentioned in text)

Battle of Magersfontein (mentioned in text)

Battle of Majuba (mentioned in text)

Battle of Mars-la-Tour (mentioned in text)

Battle of Modder River 

Battle of Modderspruit (mentioned in text)

Battle of Nivelle (mentioned in text)

Battle of Paardeberg Drift

Battle of Plevna (mentioned in text)

Battle of Salamanca (mentioned in text)

Battle of Scholtz Nek (mentioned in text)

Battle of Sedan (mentioned in text)

Battle of Spion Kop (Spioenkop) (mentioned in text)

Battle of Spotsylvania (mentioned in text)

Battle of Stormberg (mentioned in text)

Battle of Trautenau

Battle of Tugela River (mentioned in text)

Battle of Vittoria (mentioned in text)

Battle of Wagram (mentioned in text)

Battle of Worth (mentioned in text)

Siege of Kimberley

War: American Civil War

War: Franco-German (mentioned in text)

War: Peninsular War

War: Russo-Turkish (mentioned in text)

War: Sudanese War

Military Units mentioned in this book:

Black Watch' Regiment, part of the Highland Brigade (Battles of Magersfontein & Modder River)

English Lancers (Battle of Koedoesberg)

Free State Artillery

Highland Brigade (Battles of Magersfontein & Modder River)

Inniskilling Dragoons

Irish Brigade

King's Own Scottish Borderes (K.O.S.B.)

Lancashire Regiment (Siege of Kimberley)

Prussian Uhlans

Scots Greys

Transvaal Artillery

Commercial Entities and buildings mentioned in this book (alphabetical order):

African Bank

Austro-Hungarian Co-operative Defence Union

Chartered Company, The

Daily Telegraph

De Beers

East Rand Mining Co

Free State Hotel

Grand Hotel, Cape Town

Grand Hotel, Johannesburg

Johannesburg Stock Exchange

Morning Post

Mount Nelson Hotel

Mozambique Company

National Bank

Pretoria Bank

Pretoria Hotel

Randfontein (Mining company)

The Rand Club

The Standard

The Volksstem

Waterval-onder Hotel

Zoiz & Co

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