Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Great Boer War

Beschreibung

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots who gave up home and fortune and left their country for ever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon earth. Take this formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances under which no weakling could survive, place them so that they acquire exceptional skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman, and the rider. Then, finally, put a finer temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual, and you have the modern Boer - the most formidable antagonist who ever crossed the path of Imperial Britain. Our military history has largely consisted in our conflicts with France, but Napoleon and all his veterans have never treated us so roughly as these hard-bitten farmers with their ancient theology and their inconveniently modern rifles.

Autor

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was an English writer best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. In the late nineteenth century he developed an interest in Spiritualism and became one of its most ardent supporters. Doyle wrote numerous books on the subject and frequently lectured on its merits.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1021g
• ISBN-13: 9781595404091
• ISBN-10: 1595404090
• Artikelnr.: 22380030