TEN MONTHS IN THE FIELD WITH THE BOERS

Original orange cloth, with black lettering to spine and upper cover, and mounted Burgher emblem to upper cover.

(viii) + 248 pages+ publisher's catalogue; frontis. portrait; folding map.

"Recollections of six months service with the republican armies. The author, Olivier d'Etchegoyen, a French officer, joined Col. (later General) de Villebois-Mareuil near Kimberley, then besieged by the Boers. He gives a lucid account of the campaign in the western sector and of subsequent battles in the Orange Free State at which the 'Foreign contingent' was present. The French General is much praised for his leadership of European volunteers but the Boer commanders censured for lack of military organization. Following the death of Villebois-Mareuil in action near Boshof (April 5) the writer continued service in the 'Foreign corps' until disbandment in May 1900. He was captured in the Transvaal about a month later and permitted to leave South Africa." - Hackett: South African War Books, p. 23.