Colenso
Battle Rattle
English - December 15, 2022 18:47 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsHistory Society & Culture Documentary army military tactics war battle government history strategy world Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Britain's introduction to "modern" warfare came a few years before World War I against an unlikely foe: farmers on horseback. Except these farmers geniusly employed smokeless powder, machine guns, and trenches. The farmers were called Boers, and 3,500 of them fended off 21,000 British troops at a small river crossing in South Africa called Colenso.