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  Sir Redvers Henry Buller - LoveToKnow 1911
SIR REDVERS HENRY BULLER (1839-1908), British general, son of James Wentworth Buller, M.P., of Crediton, Devonshire, and the descendant of an old Cornish family, long established in Devonshire, tracing its ancestry in the female line to Edward I., was born in 1839, and educated at Eton.
Sir Redvers Buller remained in command of the Natal army till October 1900, when he returned to England (being created G.C.M.G.), having in the meanwhile slowly done a great deal of hard work in driving the Boers from the Biggarsberg (May 15), forcing Lang's Nek (June 12), and occupying Lydenburg (September 6).
On the 10th of October 1901, at a luncheon in London, Sir Redvers Buller made a speech in answer to these criticisms in terms which were held to be a breach of discipline, and he was placed on half-pay a few days later.
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 Charles Buller - LoveToKnow 1911
After practising as a barrister, Buller was made judge-advocate-general in 1846, and became chief commissioner of the poor law about a year before his death.
Buller was a very talented man, witty, popular and generous, and is described by Carlyle as "the genialest radical I have ever met." Among his intimate friends were Grote, Thackeray, Monckton Milnes and Lady Ashburton.
A bust of Buller is in Westminster Abbey, and another was unveiled at Liskeard in 1905.
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 BBC Inside Out - For Valour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
General Redvers Buller was decorated with the Victoria Cross for his heroic actions in the Zulu War.
Twenty years on, in 1899, General Buller was put in charge of some 50,000 troops sent to quell the Boers' uprising in South Africa.
Buller's well-organised withdrawal was captured by the some of the first moving picture cameras of war.
www.bbc.co.uk /insideout/southwest/series5/general_buller.shtml   (1098 words)

  
 The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (Sa-Sl)
Henry entered the factory at the age of 15 and perfected the process of enamel glazing.
Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere was the South African High Commissioner, whose abortive attempt to unite South Africa resulted in the Zulu War.
Sir Henry Bart Pottinger was a distinguished British soldier and diplomat.
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 thePeerage.com - Mary Eleanor Lauderdale Coventry and others
She married Henry Charles Howard, 18th Earl of Suffolk, son of Charles John Howard, 17th Earl of Suffolk and Isabella Catherine Howard, on 2 December 1868.
Sir Redvers Henry Buller, V.C. was born in 1839.
Sir Redvers Henry Buller, V.C. was Commander-in-chief of the British Forces in the Boer War, where he raised the siege of Ladysmith between 1899 and 1900.
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 Buller, Sir Redvers Henry - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In Africa he fought in the Kafir and Zulu wars (1878-79), against the Boers in the Transvaal (1881), and against the Mahdists in Sudan (1884-85).
As adjutant general (1890-97), Buller reorganized the army's supply and transport services.
He was made commander in chief of troops in the South African War in 1899, but his initial failure to relieve the besieged town of Ladysmith led to his supersession (1899) by Lord Roberts of Kandahar.
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 The birth of James Buller and possible connection to the family of Henry Redvers Buller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Sadly Sarah Buller and Henry Redvers Buller being cousins would on the face of it seem unlikely as both their fathers were called James, and were therefore unlikely to be brothers.
For the 1851 census Henry Redvers Buller's father James Wentworth Buller was living with a household of 20 servants in Downes, Crediton, whilst Sarah Buller's father James Buller was living in Burgage, Willington, recorded as a "pauper".
One would also wonder why Sarah would have Henry Redvers Buller’s trunk when Henry was still alive and kicking when Sarah was living with her daughter and family.
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 Sir Redvers Henry Buller
British general, son of James Wentworth Buller, M.P., of Crediton, Devonshire, and the descendant of an old Cornish family, long established in Devonshire, tracing its ancestry in the female line to King Edward I, was born in 1839, and educated at Eton.
Owing to the Boer investment of Ladysmith and the consequent gravity of the military situation in Natal, he unexpectedly hurried there in order to supervise personally the operations, but on the 15th of December his first attempt to cross the Tugela at Colenso was repulsed.
Sir Redvers Buller remained in command of the Natal army until October 1900, when he returned to England (being created G.C.M.G.), having in the meanwhile slowly done a great deal of hard work in driving the Boers from the Biggarsberg (May 15), forcing Lang's Nek (June 12), and occupying Lydenburg (September 6).
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 Bullar
Knight of the Shire for Cornwall 25 and 28 Henry VI.
Aged 20 at date of Inquisition taken at death of her father 21 Henry VI., No. 46 (1442-3), and therein stated to be the wife of Hugh Courtenay, son of Sir Hugh Courtenay of Haccombe.
Henry de BOHUN, Magna Charta Surety, 1512, son of Humphrey de Bohun IV and Margaret de Huntington, b.
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 Dramatic Zulu Reversal at Khambula [Archive] - Military Photos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Buller's men remounted and withdrew toward the laager, turning again and again to launch volleys at the pursuing Zulu warriors.
Captain Henry Cecil Dudgeon D'Arcy of the Frontier Light Horse, his mind still fresh with the horrors of Hlobane, exhorted, "No quarter boys, and remember yesterday!" The Natal Native Horse, which had been outside the fortifications harassing the Zulu flanks, rejoined the fold, eager to avenge the losses suffered at Isandlwana and Hlobane.
Buller's party had accounted for 500 warriors, while Russell's mounted infantry and the Natal Native Horse had killed at least 200 Zulus.
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 AllRefer.com - Sir Redvers Henry Buller (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Sir Redvers Henry Buller[bul´ur] Pronunciation Key, 1839–1908, British general.
His military career began in China, and he later took part in the suppression of the Red River Rebellion (1870) in Canada.
As adjutant general (1890–97), Buller reorganized the army's supply and transport services.
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 AllRefer.com - South African War : The War (Southern African History) - Encyclopedia
Reinforcements under the command of Sir Redvers Buller were sent from Britain.
Buller's failure to dislodge the Boers led to his replacement by Gen. Lord Roberts, with Kitchener as his chief of staff.
They landed in 1900 with heavy reinforcements and soon won victories; Kimberley and Ladysmith were relieved, and General Cronje was forced to surrender.
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 Redvers Henry Buller - Wikipedia
Redvers Henry Buller VC GCB GCMG (født 7.
General Buller ble avskjediget av politiske grunner etter boerkrigen.
Buller var 39 år gammel og oberstløytnant i «The 60th Rifles» (senere «The King's Royal Rifle Corps» under Zulukrigen i nåværende Sørafrika da han den 28.
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 Stevengraph portrait - so136   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Sir Redvers Henry Buller was born on 7 December 1839.
General Buller retired in 1906 and died on 2 June 1908.
The Buller portrait silk was registered at the Patent Office on 21 April 1900, the registration number 356338 being often found woven at the bottom centre of the silk.
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 Redvers Buller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The matter came to a head when a virulent piece written by The Times journalist, Leo Amery was publicly answered by Buller in a speech on 10 October 1901.
Brodrick and Roberts saw their opportunity to pounce, and summoning Buller to an interview on 17 October, Brodrick, with Roberts in support, demanded his resignation on the grounds of breaching military discipline.
The new government showed their appreciation of Buller by offering him a seat.
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 TheHistoryNet | Military History | Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Khambul
At a critical moment in the engagement, the abaQulusi and Khosa (prince) Mbelini kaMswati's renegade Swazi defenders were joined by a Zulu impi (army) of some 20,000 warriors, and the British and Colonial forces under the command of Brevet Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood were routed.
As night fell on March 28, Wood's badly mauled forces tended to their wounded and awaited the inevitable assault on their encampment on the ridge that was known locally as Ngaba ka Hawana (Hawana's stronghold) but called Khambula by the British.
Redvers Henry Buller searched the area in the vain hope of finding more survivors.
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 Paradox Interactive Forums - Joe’s war- a Boer War battlescenario AAR
However Buller decided against sending the Irish division into the frontline as rumours among the soldiers was that the Irish in reality sympathized with the Boers and they might have changed side or obstructed the attack.
Buller, understanding that the fire was a great threat to his infantry’s moral, ordered Lieutenant-General French’s cavalry division to flank the Boer positions and attack from the rear.
Knowing that little opposition was to be expected General Buller orderd French to move with his cavalry at all hast to Bloemfontein to secure the city.
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 SIR REDVERS HENRY BULL... - Online Information article about SIR REDVERS HENRY BULL...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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 S A COIN - Topics
The arrival of General Sir Redvers Henry Buller in Cape Town on October 31st, 1899.
Pilgrims’ Rest had been occupied by General Buller in 1900, but after that date the sound of war never penetrated the quiet valley.
To Pilgrims’ rest were sent from various quarters, large quantities of mealies, which were ground in a water mill driven by the Blyde river.
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 Amazon.com: BULLER: A SCAPEGOAT?: A Life of General Sir Redvers Buller VC: Books: Geoffrey Powell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Amazon.com: BULLER: A SCAPEGOAT?: A Life of General Sir Redvers Buller VC: Books: Geoffrey Powell
BULLER: A SCAPEGOAT?: A Life of General Sir Redvers Buller VC (Hardcover)
A re-examination of Zulu War hero Redvers Buller, who was blamed for British defeats in the Boer War of 1899-1902.
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 BBC - WW2 People's War - Parachute Mine
I was staying with Mr Willsher, who I called Buller.
(He was nicknamed Buller after General Redvers Henry Buller, who commanded the British Armies during the relief of Mafeking in the Boer War).
He said it was attached to a parachute that had not opened properly.
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 South Africa
3 Apr 1881 - 9 Aug 1881 Redvers Henry Buller (acting) (b.
Jan 1839 - 24 Dec 1839 Henry Jervis
8 Mar 1845 - 23 Jul 1852 Henry Douglas Warden (b.
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by Jon Buller, Susan Schade HB I LOVE YOU, GOODNIGHT by J. BULLER and S. BULLER'S BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND 1967 First Edition
Scene in The Buller Gorge New Zealand Postcard
Buller Bully Racing Go kart Friction Disks and Floater
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 GANDHI AND SOUTH AFRICA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
We were engaged to work without the range of fire, not because we had objected but because the authorities would not risk our lives, as we were not trained for military operations.
Sir George White was Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in Natal.
General Sir Redvers Henry Buller (1839-1908), Commander-in -Chief od the British forces in South Africa
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 Sir John Grenfell Maxwell Papers
Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo (1861-1936): ca.1927
Asquith, Herbert Henry, first Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852-1928): 1916-1917
Charlton, Edward G. Chauvel, Henry George, Sir, 1865-1945
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 Browse Henry Morton Stanley Archives — Metafro Infosys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Browse Henry Morton Stanley Archives — Metafro Infosys
Letter from Sir Redvers Henry Buller to HMS, recommending Edmund M. Barttelot for the EPRE, Downes, Crediton (Devonshire), 27-12-1886
Letter from solicitor George Henry Lewis to HMS, concerning Stanley's row with the Barttelot family, London, 28-11-1890
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 thePeerage.com - Index to Military Awards
Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo, U.S. 
Beresford-Peirse, Henry Bernard de la Poer, 4th Bt.
White, Luke Henry, 4th Baron Annaly of Annaly and Rathcline 
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