The Brits should probably get that looked at
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1917529/the-brits-should-probably-get-that-looked-at
The Brits should probably get that looked at
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1917529/the-brits-should-probably-get-that-looked-at

The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost At the start of the 20th century, the British Empire was, like our own, in terminal decline. Sixty percent of Englishmen were physical
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β§ battle of Bronkhorstspruit β§
The battle of Bronkhorstspruit was the first major engagement of the First Boer War. It took place by the Bronkhorstspruit river near Bronkhorstspruit in Transvaal on 20 December 1880. Threatened by the growing numbers of militant Boers in the Pretoria region, the British recalled the 94th Regiment of Foot...
#BoerWar #Bronkhorstspruit #Boers #Pretoria #Transvaal #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bronkhorstspruit
SA War Memorial, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, c.1905-10 - Mackintosh RP Postcard
"13 days of siege for a supply dump? Should've just ordered takeout! Guess we're just not cut out for long-term commitment. #SiegedAndDizzy #BoerWar"
β Paul Kruger
Aug 16, 1900 - The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Elands_River_(1900)
"Just as resistance against British imperialism once proved a key bond, now invented oppression at the hands of black peopleβwhether the majority of South African citizens or the nebulous forces of American wokenessβworks to unite the two nations under the banner of a whiteness supposedly under siege."
https://thebaffler.com/latest/gimme-boer-dulik
https://archive.ph/n2QmW
#USpol #UShistory #whiteSupremacism #settlerColonialism #Boers #BoerWar @histodons