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Over the past week we've tracked Churchill in Cuba, India and Sudan. Now determined to make his way in politics, he left the Army. But, war with the South African Boer Republics saw him once more heading for the battle zone.. here he is after escaping as POW [CSCT] 
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![Over the past week we've tracked Churchill in Cuba, India and Sudan. Now determined to make his way in politics, he left the Army. But, war with the South African Boer Republics saw him once more heading for the battle zone.. here he is after escaping as POW [CSCT] [THREAD]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ea3aYKoXQAESlzP.jpg "Over the past week we've tracked Churchill in Cuba, India and Sudan. Now determined to make his way in politics, he left the Army. But, war with the South African Boer Republics saw him once more heading for the battle zone.. here he is after escaping as POW [CSCT] [THREAD]")
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Churchill had written âImperial troops must curb the insolence of the Boersâ in his 1897 'Account With The Boers'. [CHAR 1/19/1-21]
![Churchill had written âImperial troops must curb the insolence of the Boersâ in his 1897 'Account With The Boers'. [CHAR 1/19/1-21]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ea3bn2CXgAIy3Vr.png "Churchill had written âImperial troops must curb the insolence of the Boersâ in his 1897 'Account With The Boers'. [CHAR 1/19/1-21]")
But, in the early stages of the war the British suffered humiliating reverses. They were over confident and under-prepared. Like in Sudan, the British Press reported the War romantically, one headline read 'Exciting Scenes', many containing highly racialised cartoons [CHAR28/70]
Churchill arrived in 1899, within two weeks he had been captured by the Boers when an armoured train was ambushed and derailed, spending his 25th Birthday imprisoned.
Churchill's suffering on arrival in 1899, should not distract from the military tactics he was a part of. Kitchener, who we looked at in Sudan https://twitter.com/ChuArchives/status/1273189295201927168?s=20 continued the 'scorched earth' policy to deliberately and systematically deprive guerrilla forces of resources.
Churchill wrote about 'scorched earth; [1898: The Story of The Malakand Field Force, Chapter 14]:
'...it is only an un-philosphic mind that will hold it legitimate to take a manâs life, and illegitimate to destroy his propertyâ.
'...it is only an un-philosphic mind that will hold it legitimate to take a manâs life, and illegitimate to destroy his propertyâ.
