Author: Sidney Allinson
Publisher: Philadelphia : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Canadians
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Boer War - South Africa - 1902 Canadian Lt. Harry Lanyard, British Army, leads a mounted patrol of hard-bitten Colonial troopers into the veld to recover $15-million worth of gold bullion looted by Transvaal President Paul Kruger during the Second Anglo-Boer War. To do it, Lanyard must battle tough burgher commandos, murderous bandits, hostile civilians, and an enemy spy sworn to kill him, while his own men have turned mutinous. He also strives to regain the love of his Boer ex-sweetheart who now is allied with a ruthless Czarist secret agent. Based on many actual events, KRUGER'S GOLD is meticulously researched in historical details. It reveals the horrors of concentration camps and ruthless guerilla fighting, while innocent civilians and black Africans suffer during the "last of the gentlemens' wars".
Author: Mike Dwight
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780620959575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Looted Gold explodes the myth of the missing Kruger Millions with startling evidence that exposes for the first time the committed plundering of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) by the political elite over a period of years. The disappearance of the paltry amount of gold that left Pretoria in mid-1900 as President Paul Kruger retreated down the railway line towards Portuguese East Africa is placed in a context not considered in over 100 years. That gold has wrongly become known as the missing Kruger Millions. No one will ever be able to establish exactly how much gold and other treasure was siphoned out of the ZAR illegally during the turbulent period leading up to the declaration of war in 1899. Without doubt, the missing treasure amounts to billions of US dollars at today's values. For the first time, Looted Gold lays bare the role played by the Eloff family, key figures in Kruger's extended family. New Zealand combatant Thomas Brown exposed the Eloff complicity in the seizure of illicit gold. His eye witness accounts are included in his unpublished memoirs and in Looted Gold. The diligent gathering of scarce information from numerous sources will leave readers with little doubt that dark forces swirled around the tiny ZAR nation, the impacts of which are still felt to this day. While the unstoppable brute force of British imperialism finally overcame Kruger's oligarchic rule, other countries adopted a less confrontational and far more circuitous approach to entrenching themselves in the ZAR (and later South African) gold industry. Switzerland implemented a clandestine strategy by insinuated seasoned gold experts into the ZAR with a single end game in mind: to set up Switzerland as the world's foremost traders of gold. Read how did they set about achieving this goal? Many highly relevant questions remain unanswered. Secrets abound. What was the value of illicit funds flowing out of the ZAR to secret bank accounts? Was that accumulation of wealth simply for personal gain or were funds channelled into the achievement of political stratagems? Who continues more than a century later to hide the enormous wealth gained by underhand means during Kruger's reign? As late as March 2021 a collection of 910 historical Kruger ponds and half ponds was bought by the South Africa Mint. Will more gold from the Kruger era emerge from hidden vaults in years to come? Who has kept that gold hidden for over a century? The story that unfolds in Looted Gold will provide you with facts that have not been available until now. History is being rewritten. We invite you to read on and draw your own conclusions.
Author: Francois Malan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780620833332
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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Author: Will Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781447799825
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The war between Great Britain and two small South African Boer (Afrikaner) Republics-the South African Republic (Transvaal) and the Orange Free State- occurred at the end of the nineteenth century. It was inevitable that the British would achieve victory because of the vast resources of its Empire, but the Boers introduced them to tactics and warfare that shook them to the core. This was a foretaste of what would characterise the fighting of World War One. The Transvaal became one of the wealthiest countries in the world on the discovery of massive deposits of gold - but what became of the vast amount of gold coin and bullion, which disappeared during the Boer War? Has Adam Evans found it?
Author: Paul Webster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780094656802
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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Author: John Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139482149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 815
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The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.
Author: Tony Park
Publisher: Tony Park
ISBN: 1925786617
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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A forgotten African war. A missing treasure worth killing for. German South West Africa 1906, Australian horse trader Cyril Blake is executed in cold blood by the Kaiser’s soldiers. Sydney, the present day. Blake’s great-great nephew, recently widowed Nick Eatwell, is approached by South African journalist Susan Vidler who is investigating his ancestor’s mysterious demise. Intrigued and looking for distraction, Nick discovers a long-lost manuscript which tells how Blake stayed in South Africa after serving in the Anglo Boer War and joined the Nama people in their rebellion against the Germans in South West Africa, modern-day Namibia. In Munich, historian Anja Berghoff, researching the origin of the wild ‘ghost’ horses of Namibia, stumbles across intriguing letters from Irish-German spy Claire Martin, with whom Blake had an affair. As Nick and Anja’s paths cross, they find themselves racing through southern Africa and time on the trail of a legend. But they’re not alone. Someone else is chasing these ghosts of the past, looking for clues to a hidden treasure worth killing for. Ghosts of the Past is based on a true story.
Author: James Page
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781500860486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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What really happened to the gold that went missing from the mint in Pretoria two years before the end of the Boer War? Did President Paul Kruger remove it ahead of the British occupation?Is it buried somewhere en-route to Mozambique?Pretoria, May 1900British forces are advancing, Johannesburg has fallen and the Boers do not have the troops to prevent Lord Roberts from capturing Pretoria. A decision is taken not to defend Pretoria at all costs and to save her from bombardment. President Kruger however cannot be allowed to be captured nor can the Boers allow the gold from the mint to fall into British hands, for that would surely end the war.President Kruger leaves Pretoria travelling east by train towards Delagoa Bay. He is followed a few days later by Jan Smuts. The burning question is how much gold left with them? Lydenburg, present dayThe discovery of a few Kruger pounds in the town triggers a feverish gold rush.A long forgotten bible with an inscription by President Kruger and instructions for a delivery to General Ben Viljoen, to enable him to continue the war, raises questions.The idyllic life of Rick Carlson and his family is shattered when a gang invades their farm to steal the bible and a drawing thought to be a map to the gold, plunging them in the middle of the frenzy. Rick tries to dispel the myth but secretly believes that he might have stumbled onto clues that will lead to the discovery of the gold.
Author: S. M. Gluckstein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Author: Jessica B. Teisch
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807834432
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United
