Template:Did you know nominations/Natal Border Guard


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:03, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Natal Border Guard

 * ... that the Natal Border Guard, established in 1878, was expected to defend the Colony of Natal armed only with spears and shields? "expected to fight in the traditional way with spears and shields" (p205)
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/French ship Courageux (1753)

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 08:01, 5 April 2019 (UTC).


 * Symbol voting keep.svg New enough, large enough, appears well referenced (AGF on no-preview Google Books links) and is well written. A source spotcheck revealed no apparent close paraphrasing problems, and confirmed the referenced info. Did some minor cleanup of the references, however. Hook is interesting, AGF on the reference. QPQ is done, so this is good to go. not really a barrier to DYK nomination, but is there no info on when/why the unit was disbanded? Or do the sources pass it over in silence? Constantine   ✍  09:40, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Constantine, thanks for the review. The sources I've read don't mention when the unit was disbanded.  The war was over by July 1879 and the associated Natal Native Contingent disbanded shortly afterwards (along with the majority of the other volunteer and auxiliary forces).  I suspect the Border Guard was stood down almost immediately after the war as it kept men away from their crops and cattle whoch was the livelihood of Natal at the time, but can't find a RS that states this - Dumelow (talk) 16:47, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info Dumelow, I suspected as much. Well, perhaps the statement above could suffice; it's just that the article ends rather abruptly otherwise. Constantine  ✍  19:14, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Done, cheers - Dumelow (talk) 21:50, 7 April 2019 (UTC)