<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399458" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The British descended</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The British descended <br>on the Transvaal and Orange Free State<br>from their island<br>on the other side of the sea <br>and in thousands<br>they came to ruin the land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The British descended<br>on the Transvaal and Orange Free State<br>and from the sea they came<br>and an entire empire<br>send its soldiers to destroy, <br>to pillage and scorch the earth, <br>to rape, and imprison<br>the women and children<br>of the Afrikaner nation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My great grandfathers rode on horseback to war, <br>with Christiaan De Wet, Cronje<br>and De La Rey<br>and they fought hard pressed, <br>to drive the British<br>and soldiers from all her colonies away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My great grandfathers rode on horseback to war<br>and landed in prisoner of war camps in St. Helena<br>and although the second Anglo-Boer war was lost<br>and the Afrikaner nation paid the highest cost<br>in the destruction of the land, <br>the death of men<br>and the murder of innocent women and children, <br>a time came<br>that once more we were free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My great grandfathers rode on horseback to war, <br>but one was from and with the enemy<br>and a highlander was he<br>and a more decent man<br>is still hard to find<br>and one that hated the English<br>for the dreadfull things that they did, <br>at times I see the restored Martini Henri rifles<br>taken from the British<br>during that bitter war<br>and the legacy and great spirit, <br>of my great grandfathers<br>still stays with me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399458" data-title="The British descended de Gert Strydom" data-description="The British descended on the Transvaal and Orange Free State from their island on the other side of the sea and in thousands they came to ruin the land. The British descended on the Transvaal and Orange Free State and from the sea they came and..."></div> </div> </div>

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