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The Great Boer War
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Preface
During the course of the war some sixteen Editions of this work have appeared, each of which was, I hope, a little more full and accurate than that which preceded it. I may fairly claim, however, that the absolute mistakes made have been few in number, and that I have never had occasion to reverse, and seldom to modify, the judgments which I have formed. In this final edition the early text has been carefully revised and all fresh available knowledge has been added within the limits of a single volume narrative. Of the various episodes in the latter half of the war it is impossible to say that the material is available for a complete and final chronicle. By the aid, however, of the official dispatches, of the newspapers, and of many private letters, I have done my best to give an intelligible and accurate account of the matter. The treatment may occasionally seem too brief but some proportion must be observed between the battles of 1899-1900 and the skirmishes of 1901-1902.
My private informants are so numerous that it would be hardly possible, even if it were desirable, that I should quote their name~. Of the correspondents upon whose work I have drawn for my materials, I would acknowledge my obligations to Messrs. Burleigh, Nevinson, Battersby, Stuart, Amery, Atkins, Baillie, Kinneir, Churchill, James, Ralph, Barnes, Maxwell, Pearce, Hamilton, and others. Especially I would mention the gentleman who represented the `Standard’ in the last year of the war, whose accounts of Vlakfontein, Von Donop’s Convoy, and Tweebosch were the only reliable ones which reached the public.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Undershaw, Hindhead:
September 1902.
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Chicago: Arthur Conan Doyle, "Preface," The Great Boer War, ed. F. N. Maude and trans. Vom Kriege, J. J. Graham in The Great Boer War Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=FPALBAI39G7YKMB.
MLA: Doyle, Arthur Conan. "Preface." The Great Boer War, edited by F. N. Maude, and translated by Vom Kriege, J. J. Graham, in The Great Boer War, Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=FPALBAI39G7YKMB.
Harvard: Doyle, AC, 'Preface' in The Great Boer War, ed. and trans. . cited in 1909, The Great Boer War. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=FPALBAI39G7YKMB.
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