lyddite-shells

Updated: June 29, 2025

That the Boers proved themselves brave during the war goes without saying. Those who prophesied a speedy termination of the war in favour of the British thought that lyddite-shells and dum-dum bullets, when applied to the Boer, would at once scatter them far and wide, and so intimidate them that they would kneel and sue for mercy and peace.

P. H. (Pieter Hendrick) Kritzinger - In the Shadow of Death