Ian Hamilton's March

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Ian Hamilton's March is a book by Winston Churchill. The preface calls the book a continuation of earlier letters on the South African war. The preface says the principal event with which the second series deals is the march of Lieutenant-General Ian Hamilton's column on the flank of Lord Roberts's main army from Bloemfontein to Pretoria.

The text describes a captain who had brought out a ship full of Volunteers, new drafts, and who took the greatest interest in the war. A chapter headed Exit General Gatacre carries the dateline Bethany: April 13. The text describes a garden not above a hundred yards square, whose contents proclaimed its keeper's energy and the possibilities of the soil. The text says the Eleventh Division numbered, perhaps, 6,000 bayonets with twenty guns.

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Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) is remembered as Britain's wartime prime minister, but he was also a soldier, journalist, historian, and prolific author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. Savrola, written in his twenties, was his only novel among a vast body of nonfiction.