Some attitudes in Grahamstown towards the advent of the second Anglo-Boer War

Some attitudes in Grahamstown towards the advent of the second Anglo-Boer War

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In October 1899 the Anglo-Boer War broke out.This article looks at how so quintessentially English speaking a community as late-Victorian Grahamstown (especially some of its local newspapers) reacted to the gathering crisis.Underlying the most obvious - but certainly not entirely representative - outburst of popular jingoistic feeling, cyspera cream where to buy was the sense that Grahamstown was in a state of limbo: it was no longer of commercial or military importance and it had not yet found its sense of identity as a university centre.

In such circumstances, Grahamstonians looked essentially to iphone 14 price san francisco their own interests.Theirs was a "tightfisted" response even to the plight of their own compatriots who fled the "Boer North".