The Forgotten Hero Who ALMOST Stopped the Boer War

Описание: General Sir William Butler, came close to preventing the Boer War. How the history of South Africa and the British Empire might have been different if he had.

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General Sir William Butler, was an enigmatic member of Sir Garnet Wolseley’s Ashanti Ring of officers in the British Army during the late 19th century.

Married to one of the most famous artists of the day, he served in Wolseley’s Red River campaign in Canada, the Ashanti War in West Africa, the Zulu War, Wolseley’s Egyptian campaign and the Nile Expedition to save General Charles Gordon in Khartoum.

An organiser, who fell in love with the remote wilds of Canada and was instrumental in the formation of the North West Mounted Police. Butler, was also an accomplished writer and historian.

So, a thinking general in the Victorian British army.

And yet, despite being part of Queen Victoria’s army as it painted large parts of the globe British red, he was also a passionate supporter of Irish Home Rule and of Boer Independence in South Africa.

And for a moment in 1898/99 he might have been the man to take on the imperialists such as Lord Milner, Cecil Rhodes & Joseph Chamberlain and prevent the Boer War from starting.

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General Sir William Butler - Timeline of his life
1838 Born, Ireland
1858 Joins British army (69th Regiment of Foot)
Served in 2nd Anglo-Burmese War
1867 Stationed in Channel Islands (meets Victor Hugo)
1868 Sent to Canada (Fennian Invasions)
1870 Red River Expedition
1872 Published "The Great Lone Land"
1873 2nd Ashanti War
1877 Married Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Elizabeth Butler)
1882 Anglo-Egyptian War (Battles of Kassassin & Tel el Kebir)
1884 Gordon Relief Expedition (Nile Expedition)
1898 C-in-C South Africa
1905 Retired
1910 Died


Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:42 Early Life
2:09 Joins Army
4:02 Canada
6:57 Ashanti Ring
8:21 Lady Elizabeth Butler
9:19 Egypt
9:58 Gordon Relief Exepdition
12:35 Irish Home Rule
13:25 C-in-C South Africa
16:37 Clashes with Milner
18:14 Nearly Averts Boer War
19:30 Proved Correct
20:51 Retirement
21:52 The Thinking General




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