Breaker Morant
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Harry Harbord "Breaker" Morant was an English horseman, bush balladist, military officer and war criminal who was convicted and executed for murdering nine prisoners-of-war and three captured civilian
Harry "The Breaker" Harbord Morant, c. 1900
Daisy May O'Dwyer Morant
'Breaker' Morant on Remand, 1884
Members of the Second Contingent of the South Australian Mounted Rifles prior to their departure for South Africa. Morant is third from the left
Second Boer War
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The Second Boer War was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the Boer republics over Britain's influence in Southern Africa.
Breaker Morant
…criminal who was convicted and executed for murdering nine prisoners-of-war (POWs) and three captured civilians in three separate incidents during the Second Boer War. Morant travelled to the Australian colonies in 1883 and for more than fifteen years he worked in a variety of occupations in Queensland, New South…
A typical British soldier. Corporal Alexander Turnbull of Kitchener's Fighting Scouts
Boer victory over the British at the Battle of Majuba Hill, First Boer War, 1881
A sketch showing the arrest of Leander Starr Jameson after the failed Jameson raid, in 1896
Paul Kruger, leader of the South African Republic (Transvaal)