![]() ![]() Unable even to climb back into his hated captivity, Churchill found himself alone, hiding in the low, ragged shrubs that lined the fence, with no idea what to do next.īOOKS: Marshall Ramsey announces 20th anniversary cartoon collection, will sign copies next week at MistletoeĪlthough he was still a very young man, Churchill was no stranger to situations of great personal peril. They also carried the provisions that were supposed to sustain all three of them as they tried to cross nearly three hundred miles of enemy territory. The two other English prisoners had plotted the escape, and agreed only with great reluctance to bring him along. ![]() In the end, however, the plan that had actually brought him over the fence was not his own. In the long minutes since he had dropped down into the darkness, they had not appeared.įrom the moment he had been taken as a prisoner of war, Churchill had dreamed of reclaiming his freedom, hatching scheme after scheme, each more elaborate than the last. ![]() His hopes for survival depended on two other prisoners, who were still inside the wall. ![]() At any moment, he could be discovered and shot by the guards or by the soldiers who patrolled the dark, surrounding streets of Pretoria, the capital of the enemy Boer Republic. Seizing his chance an hour earlier, the 25-year-old had scaled the high, corrugated-iron paling that enclosed the prison yard. CROUCHING IN DARKNESS outside the prison fence in wartime southern Africa, Winston Churchill could still hear the voices of the guards on the other side. ![]()
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