The Conversation: Anglo‑Boer War: how a bloody conflict 125 years ago still shapes South Africa
The 125th anniversary of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 is marked on 11 October 2024. Also known as the South African War or the Second Boer War, the brutal conflict between the colonising forces of ...
Anglo‑Boer War: how a bloody conflict 125 years ago still shapes South Africa
The New York Times: THE ANGLO-BOER WAR.; Capt. Mahan's Narrative from the Beginning to the Fall of Pretoria.
THE ANGLO-BOER WAR.; Capt. Mahan's Narrative from the Beginning to the Fall of Pretoria.
The First Boer War, which has many other names in history, including the Transvaal Rebellion, the Transvaal War, the First Transvaal War of Independence, and the First Anglo-Boer War, was a short but bloody war between the Boers of the Transvaal (what was then known as the South African Republic) and the United Kingdom. It began on , and ended on . The Boers were ...
The Boer war involved three networks of concentration camps. Boer (white) camps with women and children totalling around 115,000. Black camps with men, women and children totalling around 115,000, and ...
A short article from South African History Online about the role of black soldiers and workers in the second Boer war. The South African War of 1899-1902 was essentially a 'White mans' war, fought to ...
The Boer Wars were fought between British and Dutch settlers of the South African Transvaal. The Dutch were known as "Boers" from the word for "farmer." Their ancestors had settled in the Cape area from the 1650s onwards. From 1828, many trekked to the Transvaal with the express purpose of avoiding British rule. The British had occupied the Cape from 1806. Boers felt a natural dislike the ...