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Harry "Breaker" Harbord Morant (born Edwin Henry Murrant, 9 December 1864 – 27 February 1902) was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, bush poet and military officer, who was convicted and executed for murder during the Second Anglo-Boer War. While serving with the Bushveldt Carbineers during the Second Anglo-Boer War, Lieutenant Morant was arrested and court-martialed for war crimes—one of the first such prosecutions in British military history. According to military prosecutors, Morant retaliated for the death in combat of his commanding officer with a series of revenge killings against both Boer POWs and many civilian residents of the Northern Transvaal.

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Paddy Magee
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At the River-Crossing
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Butchered to make a dutchman'S holiday
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The Day that is Dead
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Night Thought
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West by North Again
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Who's Riding Old Harlequin Now?
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Some Other Somebody
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Sir Walter (Revised)
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To a Silent Girl
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Envoi
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His Masterpiece
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Behind the Bar - a Desecration of Tennyson
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An Enthusiastic Sportsman Enthuses
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Corn Medicine
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The Nights at Rocky Bar
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To the Rev. Canon Fisher
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When the Light is as Darkness
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The Devoutly Thankful Lover
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Two Gossips
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Westward Ho!
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The Wooing o' t
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A-Shelling Peas
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Love Outlasteth All
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A Departing Dirge
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