Ambush at Sannah’s Post: A Devastating British Defeat in the Boer War
Boer Commandant-General Christiaan de Wet laid a clever trap for an unsuspecting British garrison in the Orange Free State.
Here s What You Need to Know: Despite his unprepossessing appearance, De Wet had a keen mind for strategy and a quick eye for tactics.
During the infamous Black Week of December 1899, the proud British Army suffered three consecutive bloody defeats in southern Africa. In each of the clashes, Boer citizen-soldiers, called burghers, held fast to their defensive positions and repelled poorly executed attacks by the supposedly better-trained British forces. The shocking victories at Stormberg, Magersfontein, and Colenso lifted Boer morale while crushing British hopes for a quick, decisive victory against the outgunned and outnumbered enemy.
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QAnon faces crisis as day of reckoning fails to materialise
20 Jan, 2021 11:20 PM
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Financial Times
By: Hannah Murphy and Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan
QAnon adherents call it the storm . At midday on Wednesday, there were supposed to be blackouts across the US, military tribunals led by Donald Trump and the mass execution of Democrats in the streets. It did not happen. Instead, Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th US president and the day of reckoning anticipated by the pro-Trump conspiracy cult failed to materialise, disappointing the faithful. QAnon believers invested all their remaining hopes in false beliefs that Trump would take action validating their theories before or during inauguration, said Jared Holt, a research fellow focused on extremism at the Atlantic Council s Digital Forensic Research Lab. For some followers, watching Biden and (vice-president Kamala) Harris sworn into office was a breaking point in their beliefs.