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Harry Harbord "Breaker" Morant (born Edwin Henry Murrant, 9 December 1864 – 27 February 1902) was an English horseman, bush balladist, military officer, and war criminal who was convicted and executed for murdering nine prisoners-of-war (POWs) and three captured civilians in three separate incidents during the Second Boer War.
Harry Harbord "Breaker' Morant" (1900). Peter Joseph Handcock (1900). Lieutenant G.R. Witton, Bushveldt Carbineers (1901). Pardons for Morant, Handcock and Witton, three Australian soldiers, were sought from their court-martial convictions for the murder of Boer prisoners-of-war and local civilians during the Second Boer War.
Breaker Morant is a 1980 Australian war drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, who co-wrote the screenplay based on Kenneth G. Ross's 1978 play of the same name. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The film concerns the 1902 court martial of lieutenants Harry Morant , Peter Handcock and George Witton —one of the first war crime prosecutions in British ...
Upon its release in 1980, Beresford's film brought Morant's life story and "hoisted the images of the accused officers to the level of Australian icons and martyrs." [73] Many Australians now regard Lts. Morant and Handcock as scapegoats or even as the victims of judicial murder. Attempts continue, with widespread public support, to obtain them ...
Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts is an Australian play written by Kenneth G. Ross, [1] centred on the court-martial and the last days of Lieutenant Harry "Breaker" Morant (1864–1902) of the Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC), that was first performed at the Athenaeum Theatre, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on Thursday, 2 February 1978, by the Melbourne Theatre Company.
Poldark is the original version of the BBC television series adaptation of the novels of the same title written by Winston Graham. The adaptation was first transmitted in the UK between 1975 and 1977. The production covered all seven novels (of the eventual twelve) that Graham had written up to this time.
Morant stated at the beginning of last season that his goal was to be even better than a top 10 player in the NBA. The mishaps of last season and an early playoffs exit led to him falling down the ...
New Day is a 1949 book by Jamaican author V. S. Reid.It was Reid's first novel. New Day deals with the political history of Jamaica as told by a character named Campbell, who is a boy at the time of the Morant Bay Rebellion (in 1865) and an old man during its final chapters.