Arthur Conan Doyle

Name: The Great Boer War — Chapter 39 The End
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

The Great Boer War — Chapter 39 The End (1900)

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“The Great Boer War — Chapter 39 The End”, published in 1900, is a work by Arthur Conan Doyle. It explores elements such as South Africa, surrender and Pretoria.

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War — Chapter 39 The End (1900)

“ If we are worthy of the trust, it will be left to us. If we are unworthy of it, it will be taken away. Kruger's downfall should teach us that it is not rifles but Justice which is the title-deed of a nation. The British flag under our best administrators will mean clean government, honest laws, liberty and equality to all men. So long as it continues to do so, we shall hold South Africa. When, out of fear or out or greed, we fall from that ideal, we may know that we are stricken with that disease which has killed every great empire before us. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War — Chapter 39 The End (1900)

“ The deepest instincts of the nation told it that it must fight and win, or for ever abdicate its position in the world. Through dark days which brought out the virtues of our race as nothing has done in our generation, we struggled grimly on until the light had fully broken once again. And of all gifts that God has given to Britain there is none to compare with those days of sorrow, for it was in them that the nation was assured of its unity, and learned for all time that blood is stronger to bind than salt water is to part. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War — Chapter 39 The End (1900)

“ That the heavy losses caused us by the war were borne without a murmur is surely evidence enough how deep was the conviction of the nation that the war was not only just but essential--that the possession of South Africa and the unity of the Empire were at stake. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War — Chapter 39 The End (1900)

“ Men do not so easily grasp a hand which is reddened with the blood of women and children. From all parts as the commandos came in there was welcome news of the fraternisation between them and the soldiers; while the Boer leaders, as loyal to their new ties as they had been to their old ones, exerted themselves to promote good feeling among their people. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War — Chapter 39 The End (1900)

“ A computation of the prisoners of war, the surrenders, the mercenaries, and the casualties, shows that the total forces to which we were opposed were certainly not fewer than seventy-five thousand well-armed mounted men, while they may have considerably exceeded that number. No wonder that the Boer leaders showed great confidence at the outset of the war. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War — Chapter 39 The End (1900)

“ But the logic of facts was inexorable, and the cold still voice of common-sense had more power than all the ravings of enthusiasts. The vote showed that the great majority of the delegates were in favour of surrender upon the terms offered by the British Government. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War — Chapter 39 The End (1900)

“ Sixty-four delegates from the commandos met with the military and political chiefs of the late republics, the whole amounting to 150 persons. A more singular gathering has not met in our time. There was Botha, the young lawyer, who had found himself by a strange turn of fate commanding a victorious army in a great war. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War — Chapter 39 The End (1900)

“ The surrenders amounted in all to twenty thousand men, and showed that in all parts of the seat of war the enemy had more men in the field than we had imagined, a fact which may take the sting out of several of our later mishaps. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War — Chapter 39 The End (1900)

“ On May 31st this resolution was notified to Lord Kitchener, and at half-past ten of the same night the delegates arrived at Pretoria and set their names to the treaty of peace. After two years seven and a half months of hostilities the Dutch republics had acquiesced in their own destruction, and the whole of South Africa, from Cape Town to the Zambesi, had been added to the British Empire. The great struggle had cost us twenty thousand lives and a hundred thousand stricken men, with two hundred millions of money ”

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