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Scapegoats of the Empire: The True
Story of Breaker Morant's Bushveldt
Carbineers (1907)

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Scapegoats of the Empire: The True
Story of Breaker Morant's Bushveldt
Carbineers (1907)
bRead the true story behind the movie Breaker Morant, written by George Witton the only
surviving soldier of those sentenced to death for war atrocities./bDuring the Boer War in South
Africa, Australian George Ramsdale Witton (1874 8211 1942) served as a lieutenant in the
Bushveldt Carbineers until he was sentenced to death for murder after the shooting of nine Boer
prisoners.In his 1907 book Scapegoats of the Empire,Witton's main assertion, as indicated by the
book's provocative title, was that he, Morant, and Handcock were made scapegoats by the British
authorities in South Africa 8212 that they were made to take the blame for widespread British war
crimes against the Boers, and that the trial and executions were carried out by the British for
political reasons, partly to cover up a controversial and secret no prisonerspolicy promulgated
by Kitchener, and partly to appease the Boer government over the killing of Boer prisoners, in
order to facilitate a peace treaty the Treaty of Vereeniging was signed on 31 May 1902.Witton also
claimed that many of the accusations about them, which led to their arrest and trial, were made
by disaffected members of their regiment whose rebellious behaviour had been suppressed by
Morant and Handcock.His book, Scapegoats of the Empirewas originally published in 1907 by D.
W. Paterson of Melbourne. It has long been claimed that the book was suppressed by the
Australian government and most copies were destroyed.In introducing his book, Witton
writes:When I arrived in Australia, I found that the grossest misrepresentations had been made
by those primarily responsible for the manner of the warfare which staggered humanity,and that
they had succeeded in linking the name of Australia with the most tragic and odious incidents
connected with a mercenary and inglorious war.If the publication of the truth will in some
measure cause Australians, as a people, to take less on trust where their honour is concerned,
and in future to demand the most searching enquiries and obtain definite proof before accepting
the misdeeds of others as their own, then this record of an eventful experience will not have been
written in vain.Other books that cover Witton's story include: 8226 The Bushveldt Carbineers and
the Pietersburg Light Horse by William (Bill) Woolmore, 2002, 8226 The Breaker, Angus and
Robertson, 1973 8226 Carving From the Veldt: Rifle Carvings from the Anglo-Boer War, 1899 8211
1902, 2004. 8226 Bye-Bye Dolly Gray, 2005 8226 Ready, Aim, Fire: Major James Francis Thomas,
the Fourth Victim in the Execution of Lieutenant Harry BreakerMorant, 8226 Australians at the
Boer War, 1976. 8226 Australia's Boer War: The War in South Africa, 1899 8211 1902, 2002 8226
The Bushveldt Carbineers and the Pietersburg Light Horse (2002),

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