Bisset (Maj.-Gen. Sir J.J.): SPORT AND WAR, or, Recollections of fighting and hunting in South Africa from the years 1834 to 1867, with a narrative of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to the Cape

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Bisset (Maj.-Gen. Sir J.J.) : SPORT AND WAR, or, Recollections of fighting and hunting in South Africa from the years 1834 to 1867, with a narrative of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to the Cape

268 pages, 8vo (202 x 140 mm), frontispiece portrait of the Duke of Edinburgh, folding map, 14 plates and text illustrations, half maroon morocco gilt, marbled boards, neatly restored

Bisset covers the Frontier War of 1834-5 when at the age of fifteen he was called up for service with the Bathurst Volunteers. He then joined the Corps of Guides and took part in the invasion of the Transkei by Col. Harry Smith and was present when Sir George Southey shot and killed Paramount Chief Hintza. He fought in succeeding frontier wars and skirmishes rising to the rank of General. In 1860 he accompanied Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, on his tour of South Africa and later was in a party which went with the Prince during his second visit to South Africa in 1867 to hunt elephant in the Knysna forests. He was appointed Lieut.-Governor of Natal in 1865.

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