A West Pointer with the Boers

Name: A West Pointer with the Boers
Author: John Y. Fillmore Blake

by John Y. Fillmore Blake

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A West Pointer with the Boers $b personal narrative of Colonel J. Y. F. Blake, commander of the Irish brigade

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Angel Guardian Press, 1903.

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Tim Lindell, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2023-02-23

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

South African War, 1899-1902

About the author

John Y. Fillmore Blake

1856–1907

A West Point–trained soldier turned writer, he is best remembered for his vivid firsthand account of fighting with the Boer forces in South Africa. His work brings together military experience, Irish nationalism, and the turbulent politics of the turn of the 20th century.

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