Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson, D.S.O. (1867-1947) was an Anglo-Irish soldier, hunter, and author, best known for his book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo. The book details Patterson's experience building the railway in Uganda. 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... The term Anglo-Irish means English-Irish. ... A soldier is a person who has enlisted with, or has been conscripted into, the armed forces of a sovereign country and has undergone training and received equipment (such as a uniform and weapon) to defend that country or its interests. ... Hunting is, in its most general sense, the pursuit of a target. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1900 and a monochrome, British film of the 1950s. ...

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo was later made into three different films, Bwana Devil (1953), Killers of Kilimanjaro and The Ghost and the Darkness, in 1996. Patterson also wrote In the Grip of the Nyika (1909), With the Zionists at Gallipoli in 1916 and With the Judeans in Palestine in 1922. Bwana Devil was a 1952 American movie produced by Sidney W. Pink. ... The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 movie based on the book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, depicting attacks by man-eating lions on the builders of the Uganda Railway in Tsavo in 1898 and how the lions were killed by John Henry Patterson. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 - The Royal Army Medical Corps first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

From 1907 until 1909, Patterson was a game ranger in the East Africa Protectorate, an experience he recounts in Nyika. While hunting with a British couple, James and Ethel Blythe, James was killed. Although Patterson was never officially censored, he was ordered to return to England, and rumours of murder and an affair with Mrs. Blythe were rampant, though they remained unproven. 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The East Africa Protectorate was a British dependency extending from the Indian Ocean inland to Uganda. ...

Patterson, born in Ireland, went on to serve as a soldier in British India, the Second Boer War and First World War, eventually becoming a major figure in Zionism as the commander of both the Zion Mule Corps and of the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers aka Jewish Legion of the British Army. After the war, Patterson became an advocate for a separate Jewish state in the Middle East. British India (otherwise known as The British Raj) was a historical period during which most of the Indian subcontinent, or present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, were under the colonial authority of the British Empire (Undivided India). ... The Second Boer War, also known as the South African War (outside of South Africa), the Anglo-Boer War (among some South Africans) and in Afrikaans as the Anglo-Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog (Second War of Independence), was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902. ... Combatants Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Romania, Belgium, British Empire, United States, Italy, and others Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead:5 million Civilian dead:3 million Total dead:8 million Military dead:4 million Civilian dead:3 million Total dead:7 million World War I... Poster promoting a film about Jewish settlement in Palestine, 1930s: Toward a New Life (in Romanian),The Promised Land (in Hungarian), in small (down) text is written First Palestinian sound movie 1844 Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews by Mordecai Noah, page one. ... This article is about the Jewish Legion, also known as the Zion Mule Corps of the British Army that fought in World War I against the Ottoman Empire. ... The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was a regiment in the British Army. ... This article is about the British Army battalions known as the Jewish Legion or Zion Mule Corps, which fought in World War I against the Ottoman Empire. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...

• See also: Tsavo maneaters

The Tsavo Man-Eaters on display in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois In March of 1898, the British East Africa Company, led by engineer Lt. ...

References

• Casada, Jim (November, 2004). GREAT HUNTERS IN HISTORY: John Henry Patterson (1867?-1947). Sports Afield.
• Picture of John Henry Patterson at Field Museum [1]

External links

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John Henry Patterson (author)

• Works by John Henry Patterson at Project Gutenberg