MDMD(3): Notes and Questions

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

Wait a minute--am I missing some irony again?  I don't think I'm the only
person to've noticed that M&D is set in the 18th C., not the 19th. . . 

the Robot Vegetable wrote:
> >    103.25 'the difficult years of 'eighty and 'eighty-one'???
> 
> 	In these years, Paul Kruger arose as 'an impressive new
> leader'.  'Slowly, but very surely, a defiant new sense of national
> unity forged all the disparate and turbulent factions in the
> Transvaal together, and ... the ebullient little republic dared
> to challenge the full power of Great Britain in war.'  The war
> was declared on 'Dingaan's Day', 1880.
> 	'The First War of Independence did not last long. Within
> a month or two the British garrisons stationed in the larger 
> Transvaal towns had been subdued; and the troops massing in Natal
> for a march on the rebellious territory were humiliated at Laing's
> Nek and Ingogo; on 27 Feb 1881 the combined British forces led
> by Gen. Sir George Culley suffered the final crushing defeat on
> the hill of Majuba.