Maps Gallery

Map of Lord Kitcheners Blockhouse System in South Africa, 1916 (litho)

KW808800 Map of Lord Kitchener's Blockhouse System in South Africa, 1916 (litho); Private Collection; (add.info.: The ramifications of the blockhouse system, which played so large a part in the concluding operations in South Africa, after the second Boer War, are shown here by black circles and lines, which represent respectively the blockhouses and the barbed wire entanglements connecting them. Actually, the blockhouses were about 600 yards apart; that is, about three to every mile. It will be seen that all the railways were protected by a line of little forts along one side of the rails, and that Pretoria and Johannesburg were surrounded by a network of blockhouse cordons. The other lines sometimes followed roadways, as from Bloemfontein to Ladybrand, or they cut across the open in order to close districts used by the Boer bands, such as the Lindley-Bethlehem country. From Pretoria the blockhouses extended eastwards to Komati Poort, which is beyond the range of the map. From Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, His Life and Work for the Empire, published 1916.); Ken Welsh; out of copyright

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Map of the Shangani Patrol and Major Wilsons Last Stand

Vintage engraving of a Map of the Shangani Patrol and Major Wilson's Last Stand. The Shangani Patrol (or Wilson's Patrol), comprising 34 soldiers in the service of the British South Africa Company, was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3, 000 Matabele warriors during the First Matabele War in 1893

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Map of parts of South Africa, 1900

Map of parts of South Africa, 1900 (c). Published by G W Bacon, 1900. Associated with Lt Col H H C Dent, 1/3 North Midland Field Ambulance, Boer War (1899-1902). The main area of the map is of the Transvaal and Orange Free State, with insets of Ladysmith, northern Natal, and a general map of South Africa. Inside the main cover is a leaflet on ?The South African Crisis?. Date: 1900

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