The ‘Boer Colonel’—Maurice Moore (1854–1939): military hero or dissident?

By Madeline O’Neill In 1900 in Pienaarspoort, some fifteen miles east of Pretoria in the South African Transvaal Republic, an Irish Catholic major in the Connaught Rangers, Maurice George Moore, considered the orders forbidding him to provide supplies for a group of Boer women and children who had been removed from their farms. Insufficiently supplied ... Read more

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