User talk:FoxOdendaal

Salt in the Boer War
Hi, in March, you made this edit to the Scorched earth article which includes (among other things):
 * ...importing vast amounts of salt from the Indian colony that was thrown in the water-suplies and on the fields to prevent crops from growing after the British soldiers burnt the crops down

Importing that much salt seems like a huge operation, and it would be useful to have some good sources for this strong claim. Apparently the claim has been made by the movie Tracker, but what documentation is there for it? The passage references Ben Viljoen's book My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War, but it makes no such claim. Thanks for your help, --Macrakis (talk) 17:20, 30 May 2012 (UTC)