THE IMPERIAL YEOMANRY Part One-1900

摘要

The Imperial Yeomanry was born out of a week of disasters suffered by the British Army -Stormberg (10 December 1899), Magersfontein (11 December 1899), and Colenso (15 December 1899) - that became known as 'Black Week'. After these setbacks, it became obvious that mounted infantry were needed in large numbers to counter the fast moving, hard-hitting Boers. At the beginning of the war, there had been many offers from colonels of existing yeomanry regiments in Britain to provide forces for deployment in South Africa, some at no cost to the British Government, but all had been firmly refused.