Reconsideration of the Battle of Sandfontein : the first phase of the German South West Africa campaign, August to September 1914

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dc.contributor.advisorSaunders, Christopheren_ZA
dc.contributor.authorWarwick, Rodney Cen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-02T13:20:28Z
dc.date.available2014-10-02T13:20:28Z
dc.date.issued2003en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: leaves 199-212.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates the first phase of the German South West African military campaign during August - September 1914, conducted by the Union Defence Force on behalf of the South African government and British Empire. Its primary focus concerns the battle of Sandfontein on 26 September, and it attempts to re-explain and reinterpret events at this military engagement, with the specific emphasis upon trying to enlarge our understanding of why the defeat occurred, revealing the muted controversies surrounding it, and analysing how nearly three hundred UDF troops endured the horror of being trapped and shelled for a full day on a desert koppie. Besides describing, contextualising, utilising, and challenging the older historiography on Sandfontein, which consists essentially of dated patriotic battle accounts, more recent works in military history, including methodologies intended to analyse and explain how men endure in modern warfare, have been juxtaposed with numerous archival and secondary sources. Other issues concerning the first phase of the GSWA invasion, neglected or ignored in earlier historiography, have also received attention. These include the experiences of the force's black members, the white politcal disputes that assisted the shifting of defeat culpability to Afrikaner Rebels, and the colonial police background of Lukin's force which it is suggested, was not entirely suitable for suddenly embarking upon conventional modern war.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationWarwick, R. C. (2003). <i>Reconsideration of the Battle of Sandfontein : the first phase of the German South West Africa campaign, August to September 1914</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7985en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationWarwick, Rodney C. <i>"Reconsideration of the Battle of Sandfontein : the first phase of the German South West Africa campaign, August to September 1914."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7985en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationWarwick, R. 2003. Reconsideration of the Battle of Sandfontein : the first phase of the German South West Africa campaign, August to September 1914. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Warwick, Rodney C AB - This thesis investigates the first phase of the German South West African military campaign during August - September 1914, conducted by the Union Defence Force on behalf of the South African government and British Empire. Its primary focus concerns the battle of Sandfontein on 26 September, and it attempts to re-explain and reinterpret events at this military engagement, with the specific emphasis upon trying to enlarge our understanding of why the defeat occurred, revealing the muted controversies surrounding it, and analysing how nearly three hundred UDF troops endured the horror of being trapped and shelled for a full day on a desert koppie. Besides describing, contextualising, utilising, and challenging the older historiography on Sandfontein, which consists essentially of dated patriotic battle accounts, more recent works in military history, including methodologies intended to analyse and explain how men endure in modern warfare, have been juxtaposed with numerous archival and secondary sources. Other issues concerning the first phase of the GSWA invasion, neglected or ignored in earlier historiography, have also received attention. These include the experiences of the force's black members, the white politcal disputes that assisted the shifting of defeat culpability to Afrikaner Rebels, and the colonial police background of Lukin's force which it is suggested, was not entirely suitable for suddenly embarking upon conventional modern war. DA - 2003 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2003 T1 - Reconsideration of the Battle of Sandfontein : the first phase of the German South West Africa campaign, August to September 1914 TI - Reconsideration of the Battle of Sandfontein : the first phase of the German South West Africa campaign, August to September 1914 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7985 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationWarwick RC. Reconsideration of the Battle of Sandfontein : the first phase of the German South West Africa campaign, August to September 1914. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 2003 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7985en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historical Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherHistoryen_ZA
dc.titleReconsideration of the Battle of Sandfontein : the first phase of the German South West Africa campaign, August to September 1914en_ZA
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