Archives for July 2013

Bolivar and South American Independence

This series has seven easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Revolutions Begin in South America.IntroductionThree great periods

Today's installment concludes The Boer War,the name of our combined selection from Arthur Conan Doyle, James F.J. Archibald, and J. Castell Hopkins.

The troopship Sardinian arrived at Cape Town on November 29th and the Canadians met a splendid reception.Continuing The Boer War,with a selection

Public sentiment in Canada soon proved too strong for what might have been in other circumstances a legitimate constitutional delay.Continuing The

So far as Canada was concerned, its action seems to have been partly a product of the sentiment of military pride which was first aroused by the

Lord Roberts invited Mrs. Botha to dinner one night, soon after the occupation of Pretoria, and she accepted the invitation.Continuing The Boer

Many families were worshipping together for the last time, for on the morrow a battle was to be fought, and all who were going to continue the fight

I happened to be at the railway station on the night the President and Secretary Reitz left with the State documents and moneys, removing the capital

As Lord Roberts's army came nearer and nearer to the doomed capital, the excitement grew more intense and the air was filled with alarming