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Commandant Alfred Aylward--How the Prince Was Slain
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Isandula
Posts : 269 Join date : 2010-08-13
Subject: Commandant Alfred Aylward--How the Prince Was Slain Sun Feb 09, 2014 4:56 pm
What a resume: Fought alongside Garibaldi; Union Army in American Civil War; jailed for Fenianism; leading figure in Black Flag Rebellion challenging British authority in Kimberley; fought against the BaPedi led by Sekukuni-- on behalf of President Thomas Francois Burgers of the South African Republic; editor of the Natal Witness; advisor to Boer Commander Piet Joubert in the First Anglo-Boer War. This all before he went on the American lecture tour and was the subject of this New York Times article of December 25, 1887: HOW THE PRINCE WAS SLAIN Alfred Aylward Tells the True Story The Stampede By The Ityotyozi Which Cost The Widowed French Empress Her Son And Heir http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0E1FF93D5E15738DDDAC0A94DA415B8784F0D3 [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] (Isandula Collection)
Last edited by Isandula on Sun Feb 09, 2014 9:59 pm; edited 1 time in total
John Young
Posts : 2224 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 65 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
Subject: Re: Commandant Alfred Aylward--How the Prince Was Slain Sun Feb 09, 2014 9:39 pm
RB,
He apparently fought for the Metis in the Uprising of 1885 in Canada, alongside Louis Riel.
JB
Chelmsfordthescapegoat
Posts : 2581 Join date : 2009-04-24
Subject: Re: Commandant Alfred Aylward--How the Prince Was Slain Sun Feb 09, 2014 9:41 pm
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