2-710-911 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Lord Roberts Writing in his Tent', c1900, (1901). British soldier Frederick Sleigh Roberts (1832-1914) fought the Boers in South Africa, 1899-1900. He devised strategies to force the Boer commandos to submit, including concentration camps and the burning of farms. 26,370 women and children died in the camps. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. IV. - To Lord Roberts's Reign in Pall Mall", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]