About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 83. Chapters: Boer Wars locations, First Boer War, People of the Boer Wars, Second Boer War, Commando, Mafikeng, Military history of Australia during the Second Boer War, Kimberley, Northern Cape, Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, Potchefstroom, Colenso, KwaZulu-Natal, SS Polar Chief, Court martial of Breaker Morant, HMS Powerful, RMS Dunottar Castle, Vryburg, Jan Smuts in the Boer War, Hanover, Northern Cape, Vereeniging, Medical treatment during the Second Boer War, Tugela River, W. D. M. Bell, Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal, Jacobsdal, Queen's South Africa Medal, Drifts Crisis, Boer foreign volunteers, Bronkhorstspruit, Standerton, Opposition to the Second Boer War, Treaty of Vereeniging, Boer Commando, Black Week, Deelfontein, Uitlander, HMS Terrible, Committee of Imperial Defence, British logistics in the Second Boer War, Bethlehem, Free State, Volksrust, King's South Africa Medal, Pretoria Convention, Bloemfontein Conference, Bittereinder, Flying column, Queen's Mediterranean Medal, Modder River, Northern Cape, The Great Boer War, Clive MacDonnell Dixon, Leliefontein massacre, Robert Loraine, Laing's Nek, Magersfontein, Stop the War Committee. Excerpt: The Second Boer War (Dutch: , Afrikaans: or Tweede Boereoorlog) was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking inhabitants of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic) and the Orange Free State. It ended with a British victory and the annexation of both republics to the British Empire; both would eventually be incorporated into the Union of South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire, in 1910. The conflict is commonly referred to as The Boer War but is also known as the South African War outside South Africa, the Anglo-Boer War among most South Africans, and in Afrikaans as the Anglo-Boereoorlog ...
