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Episode 165 - Sandile ambushes a British column, Captain Bambrick’s skull and Somerset’s humiliation
This is episode 165 — and the atmosphere in Xhosaland was ablaze with indignation. A Mr Holliday had complained in Fort Beaufort that an imaDange man…
2 years ago
Episode 164 - British sappers cross Block Drift into Xhosaland setting off a chain of events on the eve of war
This is episode 164. Remember when we left off we’d been hearing about the squad of Royal engineers who’d crossed into amaXhosa territory over the Ty…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 163 - British engineers build forts and semaphores while disabled chief Mgolombane Sandile signs a treaty
This is episode 163, the year, 1845. New Cape Governor Sir Peregrine Maitland had shown he was a man of action — as a veteran of the Peninsular Campa…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 162 - The 1845 Battle of Swartkoppies, Divide and Rule and a Bloemfontein origin story
This is episode 162.
First, some housekeeping. A huge thank you to all my supporters, the podcast just passed 1.3 million listens, so there’s a lar…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 161 - Moshoeshoe signs a Treaty then collects gunpowder and horses
This is episode 161 — and what’s this I hear? The sound of wind whipping and howling through the mountain recesses, snow-capped mountains, where the …
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 160 - A tour of Philippolis, an 1844 update, the Great Guano discovery and the Merino sheep miracle
This is episode 160 and we’re breathing the spicy smells of the semi-desert, and taking in the exotic and wonderous scenary of the Richtersveld, Nama…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 159 - Boer women as handmaidens to history and the swirling social dust storms in TransOrangia circa 1843
This is episode 159.
If we take out a map of south Africa and reconsider the regions, it will become quite apparent that the main demarcation is ge…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 158 - Venda kingdoms and the Lemba Yemeni enigma
This is episode 158 and we’re taking an epic regional tour into the along the Limpopo River to meet with the Venda and other groups of folks who hail…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 157 - Dick King and Ndongeni Ka Xoki’s epic ride leads another d’Urban to Durban
This is episode 157 - where Dick King and Ndongeni ka Xoki ride to out of Durban carrying a dispatch from besieged British commander, Captain Smith, …
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 156 - The Battle of Congella leaves 34 British soldiers dead on a moonlit Durban beach
When we left off last episode, Captain Thomas Smith and two companies of the 27th Inniskilling Regiment, an 18 pounder that had just arrived by ship,…
2 years, 3 months ago