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Episode 1

Broadcast 18 September 1999. A century on, Kenneth Griffith presents a personal view of the Boer War in South Africa using illustrations, archive footage and dramatisations of historical characters. This clip focuses on the Battle of Talana Hill in the Second Boer War. Griffith looks at the fate of Lieutenant Sterling of the First King’s Royal Rifles and examines the heavy British casualties incurred in October 1899 during the battle.

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