Jim Morgan (jimmorgan)

Jim Morgan

from http://jimmorgan.us Digital Overkill I have for the last several weeks, maybe even months, had a growing sense that we are in a state of digital overload. We have more ways to use tech than we can understand, keep up with, or, to tell the truth even need. As I am a voracious reader let [...]

Jim Morgan

from http://jimmorgan.us Digital Overkill I have for the last several weeks, maybe even months, had a growing sense that we are in a state of digital overload. We have more ways to use tech than we can understand, keep up with, or, to tell the truth even need. As I am a voracious reader let [...]

Jim Morgan

from http://www.jimmorgan.us The Great Boer War Chapter 6: Elandslaagte and Rienfontein CHAPTER 6. ELANDSLAAGTE AND RIETFONTEIN. While the Glencoe force had struck furiously at the army of Lucas Meyer, and had afterwards by hard marching disengaged itself from the numerous dangers which threatened it, its comrades at Ladysmith had loyally co-operated in drawing off the [...]

Jim Morgan

from http://www.jimmorgan.us The Great Boer War Chapter 6: Elandslaagte and Rienfontein CHAPTER 6. ELANDSLAAGTE AND RIETFONTEIN. While the Glencoe force had struck furiously at the army of Lucas Meyer, and had afterwards by hard marching disengaged itself from the numerous dangers which threatened it, its comrades at Ladysmith had loyally co-operated in drawing off the [...]

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from http://www.jimmorgan.us The Great Boer War: Chapter 5 Talana Hill It was on the morning of October 12th, amid cold and mist, that the Boer camps at Sandspruit and Volksrust broke up, and the burghers rode to the war. Some twelve thousand of them, all mounted, with two batteries of eight Krupp guns each, were [...]

Jim Morgan

from http://www.jimmorgan.us The Great Boer War: Chapter 5 Talana Hill It was on the morning of October 12th, amid cold and mist, that the Boer camps at Sandspruit and Volksrust broke up, and the burghers rode to the war. Some twelve thousand of them, all mounted, with two batteries of eight Krupp guns each, were [...]

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from http://www.jimmorgan.us   The Great Boer War: Chapter 4 The Eve of War CHAPTER 4. THE EVE OF WAR. The message sent from the Cabinet Council of September 8th was evidently the precursor either of peace or of war. The cloud must burst or blow over. As the nation waited in hushed expectancy for a [...]

Jim Morgan

from http://www.jimmorgan.us   The Great Boer War: Chapter 4 The Eve of War CHAPTER 4. THE EVE OF WAR. The message sent from the Cabinet Council of September 8th was evidently the precursor either of peace or of war. The cloud must burst or blow over. As the nation waited in hushed expectancy for a [...]

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from http://www.jimmorgan.us The Great Boer War: Chapter 3 The Negotiations The British Government and the British people do not desire any direct authority in South Africa. Their one supreme interest is that the various States there should live in concord and prosperity, and that there should be no need for the presence of a British [...]

Jim Morgan

from http://www.jimmorgan.us The Great Boer War: Chapter 3 The Negotiations The British Government and the British people do not desire any direct authority in South Africa. Their one supreme interest is that the various States there should live in concord and prosperity, and that there should be no need for the presence of a British [...]

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from http://jimmorgan.us The Great Boer War: Chapter 2 The Cause of the Quarrel There might almost seem to be some subtle connection between the barrenness and worthlessness of a surface and the value of the minerals which lie beneath it. The craggy mountains of Western America, the arid plains of West Australia, the ice-bound gorges [...]

Jim Morgan

from http://jimmorgan.us The Great Boer War: Chapter 2 The Cause of the Quarrel There might almost seem to be some subtle connection between the barrenness and worthlessness of a surface and the value of the minerals which lie beneath it. The craggy mountains of Western America, the arid plains of West Australia, the ice-bound gorges [...]

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from http://www.jimmorgan.us The Great Boer War: Chapter 1 The Boer Nations CHAPTER 1. THE BOER NATIONS. 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 [...]

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from http://www.jimmorgan.us The Great Boer War: Chapter 1 The Boer Nations CHAPTER 1. THE BOER NATIONS. 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 [...]

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http://www.jimmorgan.us The Great Boer War: Preface to the Final Edition PREFACE TO THE FINAL EDITION. During the course of the war some sixteen Editions of this work have appeared, each of which was, I hope, a little more full and accurate than that which preceded it. I may fairly claim, however, that the absolute mistakes [...]

Jim Morgan

http://www.jimmorgan.us The Great Boer War: Preface to the Final Edition PREFACE TO THE FINAL EDITION. During the course of the war some sixteen Editions of this work have appeared, each of which was, I hope, a little more full and accurate than that which preceded it. I may fairly claim, however, that the absolute mistakes [...]

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from my blog #boerwars #doyle #books A dispatch from Sir Alfred Milner, giving his views upon the situation, made the British public recognise, as nothing else had done, how serious the position was, and how essential it was that an earnest national effort should be made to set it right. In it he said: ‘The [...]

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from my blog #boerwars #doyle #books A dispatch from Sir Alfred Milner, giving his views upon the situation, made the British public recognise, as nothing else had done, how serious the position was, and how essential it was that an earnest national effort should be made to set it right. In it he said: ‘The [...]

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#boerwars #southafrica #capitalism #doyle It cannot be denied that the Jameson raid and the incomplete manner in which the circumstances connected with it had been investigated had weakened the force of those who wished to interfere energetically on behalf of British subjects. There was a vague but widespread feeling that perhaps the capitalists were engineering [...]

Jim Morgan

#boerwars #southafrica #capitalism #doyle It cannot be denied that the Jameson raid and the incomplete manner in which the circumstances connected with it had been investigated had weakened the force of those who wished to interfere energetically on behalf of British subjects. There was a vague but widespread feeling that perhaps the capitalists were engineering [...]