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Commandant Jan Ploeger & Major H. J. Botha

THE FORTIFICATION OF PRETORIA. FORT KLAPPERKOP - YESTERDAY AND TODAY (1968)

Anglo-Boer War Fortification

Published: The Government Printer, Pretoria, 1968

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $60

Bidding opens: 14 Aug 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 21 Aug 16:30 GMT

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Publisher's pictorial softcover binding.

vi + 95pp. Illustrated with numerous photographs and diagrams of historical interest.

The Government Printer's Military History Publication No. 1. 

2,500 copies were published.

'The history of the four fortresses round Pretoria, of which the restored Fort Klapperkop is one, is intimately interwoven with the political and military past of the South African Republic.

The political friction in the course of 1895 and at the beginning of 1896 which culminated in organised revolt in Johannesburg, was a decisive factor with regard to the construction of the forts.' - from the Introduction 

  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good


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