blignant

Updated: May 26, 2025

Blignant, writing from the Port Elizabeth Refugee Camp, says: 'If we had to complain it would be false complaint, and all the stories about ill-treatment are untrue as far as I can find out. Among the women cared for in this camp was one from Jagersfontein, who boasted and with truth that she had shot two unarmed British soldiers with a revolver.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct

'The only thing that we are afraid of, wrote young Blignant, 'is that Chamberlain with his admitted fitfulness of temper should cheat us out of our war and, consequently, the opportunity of annexing the Cape Colony and Natal, and forming the Republican United States of South Africa' a legitimate national ambition perhaps, but not compatible with bonâ-fide peaceful negotiations.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct