Sprit of a nation

[avislog]

I am not a Boer, I love history. Here are statements of Boer nation by two WW11 famous Generals. One is British and other one is American. Very interesting:

“Give me 20 divisions of American soldiers and I will breach Europe .Give me 15consisting of Englishmen, and I will advance to the borders of Berlin. Give metwo divisions of those marvelous fighting Boers and I will remove Germany fromthe face of the earth."Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery-

"The Americans fight for a free world, the English mostly for honor and glory and medals, the French and Canadians decide too late that they have to participate. The Italians are too scared to fight; the Russians have no choice.The Germans for the Fatherland. The Boers? Those sons of bitches fight for the hell of it."- General George S Patton-

[h0stag3]

We are an interesting bunch :-P

[Maroelas]

Fantastic!!

[marshy]

Proud to be a South African!

[Longshot]

Amen!! Sometimes we fight just a little too much with each other.

[Gunservant]

Arthur Conan Doyle:

"Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots, who gave up their name and left their country forever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon the face of the earth. Take these formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances in which no weakling could survive; place them so that they acquire skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman and the rider. Then, finally, put a fine temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual and you have the modern Boer."

[h0stag3]

Arthur Conan Doyle:

"Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots, who gave up their name and left their country forever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon the face of the earth. Take these formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances in which no weakling could survive; place them so that they acquire skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman and the rider. Then, finally, put a fine temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual and you have the modern Boer."

Good stuff! If only we could all remember our roots.

[ady]

There is a bit more to that.

"Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual, and you have the modern Boer - the most formidable antagonist who ever crossed the path of Imperial Britain. Our military history has largely consisted in our conflicts with France, but Napoleon and all his veterans have never treated us so roughly as these hard-bitten farmers with their ancient theology and their inconveniently modern rifles. No one can know or appreciate the Boer who does not know his past, for he is what his past has made him.”

Chapter 1 The Great Boer War Sir Arthur Conan Doyle September 1902.