- Ian Hamilton's March
"Ian Hamilton's March" is a book written by
Winston Churchill . It is a description of his experiences accompanying theBritish army during theSecond Boer War , continuing after the events described in "London to Ladysmith via Pretoria ".Writing
Churchill had officially resigned from the British army in order to pursue a political career, but on hearing of the outbreak of war in
South Africa between the British colonies and the free Boer states ofTransvaal andOrange Free State , immediately made arrangements to take part. He arranged to act as correspondent for "The Morning Post ", and by playing them off against the rival newspaper, the "Daily Mail ", obtained a salary of £250 per month. He also persuaded the Colonial SecretaryJoseph Chamberlain to write him a letter of introduction to theHigh Commissioner for Southern Africa ,Alfred Milner He sailed fromSouthampton aboard the "Dumottar Castle" on14 October and reachedCape Town on the 31st. [cite book | last = Jenkins | first = Roy | title = Churchill | publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux | location = New York | year = 2001 | isbn = 0374123543 |pages=50-64 ]The book is an edited collection of reports originally published in a newspaper. Returning from the war, Churchill arranged to publish them as a collection and the book appeared in May
1900 published by Longmans and eventually sold 8,000 copies. In1930 Churchill produced an autobiography, "My Early Life ", which also had several chapters devoted to his Boer War experiences.The events described
The book describes General
Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton 's campaign fromBloemfontein toPretoria . Hamilton travelled four hundred miles from Bloemfontein to Pretoria fighting ten major battles withBoer forces and fourteen minor ones.References
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title = London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
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date = 1900
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title = Churchill: A Biography
publisher = Macmillan
date = 2001
location = New York
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isbn = 0333782909External Links
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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=boAOAAAAYAAJ&dq= "London to Ladysmith via Pretoria"] at Google Books
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14426 "London to Ladysmith via Pretoria"] atProject Gutenberg
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