Frederick Russell Burnham
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Frederick Russell Burnham was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teac
Major Burnham in his British Army uniform in 1901
Burnham in Arizona Territory in 1881
The six-shooter Burnham purchased as a teenager in Prescott, Arizona, which he kept all his life and later used in Rhodesia, East Africa and Mexico
Bob Bain; Burnham (middle) during the First Matabele War in 1893, holding his Winchester model 1873 .44WCF rifle; Maurice Gifford
Fritz Duquesne
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Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne was a South African Boer and German soldier, big-game hunter, journalist, and spy. Many of the claims Duquesne made about himself are in dispute; over his lifetime h
Frederick Russell Burnham
…During World War I, Burnham was living in California and was active in counterespionage for Britain. Much of it involved a famous Boer spy, Captain Fritz Joubert Duquesne, who became a German spy in both World Wars and claimed to have killed Field Marshal Kitchener while en route to meet with the Russians. During the…
Captain Duquesne, Boer Army picture, c. 1900
Pictures of Duquesne found at his home in New York after his arrest in 1917.
Fritz Duquesne c. 1913
Alice Wortley Duquesne c. 1913