Copy No.33. Signed by Author and dated 31/8/1995. The author's printed work was destroyed by authorities at the University of Fort Hare where he worked and where they were printed. Few copies survive, mostly in the hands of institutions. This is an extensive scholarly work detailing the location, construction, and history of forts, fortifications, posts, bridges, prisons, earthworks. watchtowers, guard houses, hospitals, cemeteries, signal towers, roads etc. Effectively all British military works & structures built in the Eastern Cape during the 19thC are detailed here. The research was mostly drawn from British archival sources and works of contemporary writers - some of whom were eye-witnesses to the construction of military posts. Aims were to indicate the exact nature of the forts, why they were erected, where they were sited, how they related to the broader trends of frontier history and how their existence affected the lives of the British soldiers who manned them as well as those of the amaXhosa against and amongst whom they were erected. Illustrated with coloured photographs, maps, plans, sketches. Numerous appendices, extensive list of sources. A major work on South African military history.
Gilt title decorated red cloth boards. 695pp illustrated colour. 4to.
The book is in near Fine condition. no ownership inscriptions, 4 square corners. The rather thin dustwrapper has been professionally backed onto thicker stock, it is a little worn but no major loss or tears, fairly clean and attractive.
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