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From: "Gerold Whittaker" <>
Subject: RE: [ZA] Brabant's Horse
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:58:35 +0200
In-Reply-To: <00cc01c41afa$247af2c0$261258db@MacLeod>


Hi Ray,

I downloaded a copy of "The Great Boer War" by Arthur Conan Doyle from the
following website:

http://gutenberg.net

It's a Word document of about 350 pages (zipped to reduce download time).

Regards,
Gerold.

-----Original Message-----
From:Lynn MacLeod [mailto:]
Sent:05 April 2004 12:38
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Subject:Re: [ZA] Brabant's Horse

Hi Ray
I cannot answer your question as to who/where but a good starting point
would be to try and get your hands on
Three Years War - C R de Wet - the index is not really easy to just pick out
a name - more in seiges/events so you have to really read the book
The Great Boer War - Arthur Conan Doyle which has plenty of references to
both Brabant's Horse and BRABANT himself.
Pg 363 "In the meantime the colonial division of that fine old African
fighter, General BRABANT, had begun to play its part in the campaign. Among
the many judicious arrangements which Lord ROBERTS made immediately after
his arrival at the Cape was the assembling of the greater part of the
scattered colonial bands into one division, and placing over it a General of
their own, a man who had defended the cause of the Empire both in the
legislative assembly and the field. To this force was entrusted the defence
of the country lying to the east of Gatacre's position and on 15 Feb, they
advanced from Penhoek upon Dordrecht. Their Imperial troops consisted of
the Royal Scots and a section of the 79th R.F.A, the Colonial of Brabant's
Horse, the Kaffrarian Mounted Rifles, the Cape Mounted Rifles and Cape
police, with Queenstown and East London Volunteers.....
Kinb regards
Lynn MacLeod.

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