Albert Meyer

The 'Ore' Wars

"Towards the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, there were the Boer Wars, an attempt by Britain to expand it imperialist empire. If there was any good to those wars, it was that a young lieutenant by the name of Winston Churchill made it through alive"

Churchill was a journalist at the time. He was detained by the Boers and "escaped" - his words. He wrote that during the escape he swam across the "mighty Apies River." The Apies River will make your local creek look like the Amazon by comparison. I doubt whether Churchill got his feet wet. Journalists seldom tell the truth and more so when they write about themselves. Other than that, Churchill was a great man (English father and American mother), but in his youth, he embelished the truth somewhat.