The Martini-Henry rifle Mk.II has a single shot hinged-block action.The stock is of a two-piece design with the secured by means of a threaded longitudinal bolt passing through it and accessed for tightening by removing the -plate. This bolt screws into a socket into the rear of the receiver.The fore-end is attached to the barrel […]

Baden Powell got his fame from two totally differently accomplishments. While he were serving in the British Army during the Boer War (1899-1902), he led the defense of Mafikeng for 217 day’s against a greatly outnumbered 1,200 Boers he became a hero. In 1907 when Baden-Powell learned that his text book ‘Aids to scouting’ (1899) […]

Surely the normal monetary and postal system of the time existed during these time. But to understand why it was changed is closely knit with the understanding of Baden-Powell. Please read the biography of Baden Powell to understand better. It is open for discussion if his popularity has gone to his head. He received many […]

Apart from the daily skirmishes of which can be read in the day to day reports from the diaries there were a few major battles.  1.What a waste of dynamite. On the morning of the 13th October Baden Powell used a locomotive to push out 22,5 tons of dynamite 15km to the north with the […]

Baden-Powell‘s leave here or starve here policy. The month of January were a bad month for the Garrison, the food were running low. At the start of the siege Baden-Powell calculated that he had enough food for the white garrison to last at least a month (until Feb..). Supplies for the Africans that meant their […]

Abaham Stafleu was born on 26 November 1870 an Leiden, Holland. Trained as a teacher and marries Christina Noest on 24 November 1894.Comes to ZAR 8 January 197 to a school at Kuilfontein in the Marico district. His wife died with the birth of their first child a son called Abraham Johannes Christiaan 29.12.1899. Stafleu […]