[ubuntu-za] Stop the Anti-Unity / Gnome 3 FUD! [off topic]

[Jan Greeff]

On 30/12/2011 21:24, wesley.werner at gmail.com wrote:
>> during the Anglo-Boer war. A handful of farmers, untrained in warfare,
>> stood up to the mighty (at the time
>> British Empire. They pioneered guerilla
>> warfare and stubbornly refused to lose the war.
>> Oom Jan, this is the coolest thing I've ever heard. Haha! :-)
> Not to mention the British forces suffered heavily to feed soldiers in remote location because the food they moved didn't keep long, whereas our boers had preserves, rusks, biltong etc made to keep for this purpose. And don't forget the boeretroos and witblits ;-)
>

While the British interned captured Boers and sent them to remote 
locations like Bermuda, so reducing their numbers even more, the Boers 
were forced to release the captured rooineks, so they took all their 
clothes and equipment and sent them on their way.

My late father, born in 1900, remembered the day when he saw naked men 
marching up the main street of Lichtenburg. He later learnt that they 
were British soldiers that had been so released.

Read the true story about the adventures of one of the Boer forces in 
Bermuda and his escape to America here: 
http://www.greeff.info/tng01/getperson.php?personID=I1596&tree=Lichtenburgstam