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* NicknamingTheEnemy: the Boers are referred to ironically as the "brothers" or the "brethren".
* RebelLeader: guess who the friendly farmowner turns out to be? One of the first lessons learned: during times of guerilla warfare, do not trust strangers.
* SecondBoerWar: the setting.
* StupidEnoughToWork: BF finally wins in the sixth dream by throwing away the standard military advice of "hold the high ground" and entrenching in the riverbed itself--an idea that he dismissed as crazy nonsense when he first thought of it since it went against all of his conceptions of warfare. One of the key lessons learned is "a hill may not, after all, though it has 'command,' necessarily be the best place to hold".
* ValuesDissonance: Imprisoning civilians and shooting their livestock are generally not considered to be valid counterinrgency tactics in the modern era, mainly because it no longer has the same effect.
* WarIsGlorious: BF {{invoke}}s the trope early on, thinking of massed volley-fire and bayonet clashes. The reality, of course, is very different.

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