Australia's South African war 1899-19021

dc.creator	Craig Wilcox
dc.date	2012-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:09:58Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:09:58Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/30-1-159
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/072b72d569fb49b19edcd841386d1ab2
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/9422
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/072b72d569fb49b19edcd841386d1ab2
dc.description	<p>Around twenty thousand Australians fought in the great war between the British empire and the republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. Those Australians constituted five in every thousand of their people, or three in every two hundred of their male workers. In South Africa they made up just one in every twenty-five soldiers in a British army of almost half a million.2 As these bald figures immediately suggest, Australia's contribution to the war was too small to be decisive, and its experience of the war involved too few of its people to make a powerful impact on its society, let alone wrench its history onto some different course. Still, that contribution and that experience were unprecedented for a people who had never before gone to war as a people, and deserve more attention - and more balanced,</p> <p>dispassionate, critical attention - than they've yet received from historians of the war, of Australia, and of the British empire.3 In this lecture <strong>I'll </strong>strive for such balance by outlining why and how Australians went to war in South Africa, what their soldiers did there, and the war's legacy for their country and their descendants today.</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/159
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 30, Iss 1 (2012)
dc.subject	Australians fought in the great war
dc.subject	republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal
dc.subject	British empire
dc.subject	why and how Australians went to war in South Africa
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
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dc.title	Australia's South African war 1899-19021
dc.type	Article