Herbert Plumer

An Irregular Corps in Matabeleland

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Produktbeschreibung

"Full of details of every kind which are likely to be of use to others undertaking similar command." -The Librarian (London), June 26, 1897 "Colonel Plumer was the officer sent up to Bulawayo after the Jameson Raid...commanded the Imperial relief force made necessary by the Matabele rising." -Book-Bits (London), April 10, 1897 "Plumer...took the utmost pains to mould his raw volunteers into an efficient fighting...force...this irregular corps...did extremely good work." -Plumer of Messines (2017) "Few British commanders won such renown...his first important appointment was in command of the troops in the Matebele Rebellion." -Detroit Free Press, July 17, 1932 With the nearest British troops 500 miles away, who would be left to protect the 4,000 Zimbabwe settlers from a violent uprising of the Matebele tribe bent on their extermination? Would Col. Plumer be able to raise an irregular fighting force of civilians in time to save settlers from this onslaught? In 1897, Herbert Plumer (1857 - 1932) would write a first-hand account of his raising, training, and mobilizing a force of irregular fighters which he would lead into battle. His 1897 book was titled, "An Irregular Corps in Matabeleland." In introducing his book, Plumer writes: "The Matabele had risen in revolt against the authority of the British South Africa Company, and had expressed their determination to exterminate all the white settlers in the country, caused the utmost consternation, not only throughout South Africa, but in England; and, indeed, it was hardly possible to exaggerate the gravity of the situation. "The picture of the small population in that country, among whom were many women and children, exposed to the fanatical fury of a savage race, famed for their ferocities and cruelties, with the long stretch of over 500 miles between them and the nearest place from which reinforcements could be sent, was horrible to contemplate; and the anxiety as to whether, with their limited resources of men and arms, they would be able to hold out until those reinforcements arrived was proportionally intense...." About the author: Huber Plumer (1857-1932) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War. After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he took command of the Second Army in May 1915 and in June 1917 won an overwhelming victory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 223g
• ISBN-13: 9781447681069
• ISBN-10: 1447681061
• Artikelnr.: 69930193

Autorenporträt

Huber Plumer (full title: Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE) was born March 13, 1857, and died July 16, 1932. He was a senior British Army officer of the First World War. After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he took command of the Second Army in May 1915 and in June 1917 won an overwhelming victory over the German Army at the Battle of Messines, which started with the simultaneous explosion of a series of mines placed by the Royal Engineers' tunnelling companies beneath German lines, which created 19 large craters and was described as the loudest explosion in human history. He later served as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine and then as Governor of Malta before becoming High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1925 and retiring in 1928. He went to Southern Rhodesia in 1896 to disarm the local police force following the Jameson Raid and then later that year returned there to command the Matabele Relief Force during the Second Matabele War. He became deputy assistant adjutant-general at Aldershot with promotion to brevet lieutenant colonel on 8 May 1897.