Commemoration of Signal to Bear Arms against the British invading South Africa (historical era)

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Here are a few photos of today`s Commemoration Day of the Boer History , calling upon all Boer Farmer fighters to take up arms against the invasion of the british ...
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BRICKBURN said:
Congratulations on your successful reenactment.
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Brickburn, great to hear from you again...yes for sure we are commemorating our History. It is still part of a large Boer/Afrikaner communities in South Africa . To us 16 December is a Holy day...we made a promise to honor our Creator for saving our Boer Voorttrekkers against the 3000 Zulus that day on 16 December on that faithful day alongside the river that turned red with all the blood of the dying/wounded Zulu impi of the treacherous Dingaan who slaughter Piet Retief and the people who went with him to sign a treaty receiving land given to them by dingaan...still he murdered them all...
 
Then years later we had to fight the treacherous british again who kept the Boer /Farmer women and children in concentration camps where 24000 women and children died ...the only reason we lost that war was that the british conducted a "scorched earth campaign" burning down every farm , killing every cattle and kept the women and children in the concentration camps ...
 
As we grow up , we as children noticed still the hate our Grand Parents still hated the british...we were not allowed to speak english at all around our old people..there were an intense hate for everything related to british /english speaking ..
 
a dark day in african history, the brits used prison ships in our war to get rid of them. andy jackson suffered in the war and it was not untill the war of 1812 that he got his revenge at new orleans.
 
As was the dark days during the Boer /British war ....killing women/children and old people in concentration camps just to win a war against farmer hunters that actually defeated the mighty british world power while they conducted the scorch earth campaign for ever cemented the british as murderers ....

Today the same country are weak..weak leaders, being flooded by muslem and people from their previously colonial countries.... The Boer Prophet Siener van Rensburg predicted this to be happening..."" and the british /england will be over run by their colonial countries people like locusts eating and swarming england until everything will be destroyed in that country"'
Looking at what is currently happening in England I think Siener van Rensburg the Boer Prophet was quite correct :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

England really is over run with migrants from africa and the arab countries ..." what goes around usually comes around""" serves them right ..I just wished our fore fathers could experienced what is happening to the country that killed thousands of women/children and the elderly , burned down farms and killed all cattle ....
 
if england had been closer i think they would have done the same thing here, they did allfull things here, but on a smaller scale do to limited manpower.
 
Yes, I do believe we moved on since then, BUT it is still ingrained into our generations of the Boer /Afrikaner commemorating our History every year ...I thought it would diminish looking back on my childhood to now so many years passed , still every year on 16 th December the venues are filled with Boer/Afrikaans people, old people/young people keeping our history alive ..
 
leslie hetrick said:
a dark day in african history, the brits used prison ships in our war to get rid of them. andy jackson suffered in the war and it was not untill the war of 1812 that he got his revenge at new orleans.
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Read the history of that battle. Jackson didn't win (and he didn't expect to win). The British defeated themselves.
 
If I recall my history correctly, a substantial number of blacks fought on the Boer side. What do you know about that Gert?
 
Ontario Hunter said:
Read the history of that battle. Jackson didn't win (and he didn't expect to win). The British defeated themselves.
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Anybody, who outnumbers their opponent by 2:1, has an immense advantage in experienced troops (Many of the British troops were veterans on the Peninsular War whereas only a few of Jackson's army were US Regulars and Marines) and has a commander (Sir Edward Pakenham, BOL of Wellington) more well versed in war than Jackson, bloody well deserves to lose!
 
HunterRick56 said:
Anybody, who outnumbers their opponent by 2:1, has an immense advantage in experienced troops (Many of the British troops were veterans on the Peninsular War whereas only a few of Jackson's army were US Regulars and Marines) and has a commander (Sir Edward Pakenham, BOL of Wellington) more well versed in war than Jackson, bloody well deserves to lose!
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Pakenham was not much of a general. He was very young and spent most of the Napoleonic Wars invalided (sick as I recall). It was clear things were about to wrap up with War of 1812 and Wellington wanted to get Pakenham in on the glory before it was done. The battle actually took place six weeks after peace treaty was signed. As I recall the bulk of the troops were Sutherland Highlanders returning to Britain from a tour in Nova Scotia. They picked up the boy wonder and diverted to New Orleans. The commander of the battle ships used as troop transports was indignant at not being put in charge and refused to allow his ships to be used in the attack. Had they been towed up the river (as Jackson expected) New Orleans would have been defenceless. Jackson already had his escape route to the Natchez Trace laid out. Pakenham launched the attack across a swamp before light in fog and rain. Jackson's riflemen picked off most of the field grade officers on horseback very quickly. The British green-coat rifle corps skirmishers actually breached Jackson's lines but couldn't get any support. By then almost all the officers were dead or down. The drummers and buglers were also picked off. With no officers, no communication, and poor visibility, the battlefield became a confused slaughterhouse in short order. Lack of cavalry seriously affected the British flexibility to counter Jackson's artillery.

One officer survived by virtue of an innovation in his wardrobe. General Gibbs was hit in the guts with a musket ball. The ball was caught in the elastic band of his underwear which kept his bowel from being perforated.
 
Ontario Hunter said:
Pakenham was not much of a general. He was very young and spent most of the Napoleonic Wars invalided (sick as I recall). It was clear things were about to wrap up with War of 1812 and Wellington wanted to get Pakenham in on the glory before it was done. The battle actually took place six weeks after peace treaty was signed. As I recall the bulk of the troops were Sutherland Highlanders returning to Britain from a tour in Nova Scotia. They picked up the boy wonder and diverted to New Orleans. The commander of the battle ships used as troop transports was indignant at not being put in charge and refused to allow his ships to be used in the attack. Had they been towed up the river (as Jackson expected) New Orleans would have been defenceless. Jackson already had his escape route to the Natchez Trace laid out. Pakenham launched the attack across a swamp before light in fog and rain. Jackson's riflemen picked off most of the field grade officers on horseback very quickly. The British green-coat rifle corps skirmishers actually breached Jackson's lines but couldn't get any support. By then almost all the officers were dead or down. The drummers and buglers were also picked off. With no officers, no communication, and poor visibility, the battlefield became a confused slaughterhouse in short order. Lack of cavalry seriously affected the British flexibility to counter Jackson's artillery.

One officer survived by virtue of an innovation in his wardrobe. General Gibbs was hit in the guts with a musket ball. The ball was caught in the elastic band of his underwear which kept his bowel from being perforated.
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Ya still lost!
 
HunterRick56 said:
Ya still lost!
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I'm a US citizen. I actually have a stars and stripes flag that flew over that battlefield folded up in the cedar chest. My daughter has instructions it will go on my coffin when the time comes. It's the last battle between Canadians and Americans.
 
Ontario Hunter said:
If I recall my history correctly, a substantial number of blacks fought on the Boer side. What do you know about that Gert?
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You are correct , there were Zulus that were in the laager..as well as British people , Colored people , BUT NO WOMEN AND CHILDREN as stated in some historical literature, cattle were in the Laager ( circle of ox wagons with wooden ladders to barge any zulu that got too near the wagons .There were thick mist drifting around the circle of wagons and over the river alongside the laager.
The canons were loaded with nails, pottery shards, steel pieces to deliver a deadly shot onto the storming zulus...
 
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