Willem Steenkamp: 1 book
Assegais, Drums & Dragoons
A Military And Social History Of The Cape
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
What motivated a small multiracial force of Cape-born soldiers - whites, coloureds and Malays - to put up such stiff resistance at the Battle of Blaauwberg in 1806, in spite of odds so overwhelming that even some long-serving professional soldiers broke rank and ran? This was the intriguing question...
