TRAGIC FAILURE The last campaign of Maj-Gen George Pomeroy Colley

摘要

Callous though it may sound, the Boer who fired a bullet through the forehead of Maj-Gen George Pomeroy Colley probably did him a favour. Had Colley survived the catastrophe of Majuba, scene of one of Britain's most humiliating defeats at the hands of the Boers, he would have been regarded -and regarded himself - as a pitiful failure, quite possibly for the remainder of his life.