The Siege of Elands River: Koos De La Rey vs Australian's and Rhodesian's 

Thank u for the upload, starting reseaching the bore wars earlier now trying to learn about specific battles... Awesome info

If you are interested, there's a cool folk tune about the whole thing by John Edmond

Thanks for making this. I have only just learned of this battle from a book about Australian war stories which only had a short story about this. That, along with your video, has made me want to look further into The Boer War as a whole (which I know almost nothing about). Thanks again.

Great job! Appreciate the detailed research.

I enjoy your talks thankyou.

Australian troops were Imperial after 1901 in WW2, the AIF. BSAP were Rhodesian police It was formed as a paramilitary force of mounted infantrymen in 1889 by Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa Company, from which it took its original name, the British South Africa Company's Police. Initially run directly by the company, it began to operate independently in 1896, at which time it also dropped "Company's" from its name. It thereafter served as Rhodesia's regular police force

There were plenty of Boers armed with captured 303 Martini rifles and Enfield bolt action rifles.

Wow, so our trinations plight goes back before 1900's. The Aussies, Kiwi's fighting the Boers.

pom poms are multiple barrel high fire rate, used in ship defence. used as anti aircraft in the 2nd ww. But were also used in earlier land wars. They were a lot more annoying to Australians at elands than 12 pounders resulting in them going out at night and attacking them. The reason they called the trenches that name was because it was impossible to dig trenches in what was basically sand. 26 Australian dug a 2 foot deep trench along the river in the sand over a Km length to make it appear that there were more troops than there were defending the water supply, boers did actually attack the river defenders with pom poms and the Australians went out of a night and silenced them. The aggressive Australian patrolling you speak has always been a characteristic of Australians in warfare to deny the enemy sleep at night. Its was called peaceful penetration and was carried out by various size patrols. it hit its peak in ww1 when Australians went out one night and eliminated an entire battalion of germans without German high command knowing which infuriated Lutendorf. Incidently you mention breaker morant, who was indeed guilty of murder and should have been tried by Australians, his mate was also involved - Captain Antill, who was the actual soldier who ordered the futile 4 Charges at the neck at gallipolli resulting in a massacre when 3 charges went ahead. Us Australians like to blame the british for this disgrace, but it was Antill who ordered it, as his commanding officer was a drunkard who was unconscious at the time

Watch those mic pops though, pop filter or softer approach. 👍

Thank you, however, you have presented some very inaccurate facts. For example the war ended in 1901, not as you said 1902? Elandsfontein was a huge strategic victory for the Afrikaners as the siege tied up other troops who were designated to achieve other British strategies.

Ozz needs those soldiers now

My disdain for imperial troops is immense.

vernacular not very balanced but very Pro British. Now find out about Breaker Morant and British justice.

Hi I am a south African if u want I can teach a little about our language

And don't forget the awards, they all got for death of 27000 woman and children.

Why were the rhodesians fighting against boers

Shame the British 450 000 troops consisting of ozzis rhodesians canadians scots wales and irish had to turn the war to Boer woman and children to win the second war , that doesn't say much about them fighting woman and children , yes and at the end the rhodecians did surender and rodesia became zimbabwe .

West Australians?

Interesting, fighting over indigenous African land.

WHY .... WHY ...WHY did the English attack a Fellow European Christian people in their own country ???

XERXES 7 8 ESTER,

Zimbabwe 🤣🤣🤣🤣

N boer maak n plan,maar n engelsman maak n beter plan.

Very poorly narrated....