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At the start of the Boer War, our General Koos De La Rey was certainly unaware of the innovations of the American Civil War. His only reading matter was the family bible and that didnt feature any Yankee know-how. The British were also blissfully unaware of trench warfare as it took them some considerable time to adapt their tactics to minimise the damage they suffered because of it. So, it was not known to the worlds greatest Empire at the time, and it was" invented" in ignorance that it had been used on the other side of the world. As I said earlier, I overstated the case, but in our hemisphere, it was a new new deadly thing thought by an unschooled farmer turned reluctant General.
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