Breaker Morant - Peter FitzSimons
Category: Misc. Non-fiction
Tags: Misc. Non-fiction, History
EPUB INCLUDED Chapterized Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins Release date: 27-10-2020 Publisher: Hachette Australia, The epic story of the Boer War and Harry Breaker Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero?, Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry Breaker Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Queensland in 1883 in his early 20s, Morant was a charming but reckless man who established a reputation as a rider, polo player and writer. He submitted ballads to The Bulletin that were published under the name The Breaker and counted Banjo Paterson as a friend. When appeals were made for horsemen to serve in the war in South Africa, Morant joined up, first with the South Australian Mounted Rifles and then with a South African irregular unit, the Bushveldt Carbineers., In October 1901 Morant and two other Australians, Lieutenants Peter Handcock and George Witton, were arrested for the
