Analysis - 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 ...

In 1899, Canada agreed to send volunteers to serve under British command in the Boer War. (Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada C-007986, Montreal soldiers of C Company South African ...

Like a million other South Africans, the Stoltz family was up at cockcrow one morning last week, all ready to cast its votes in the first general election since 1948. Grandpa Stoltz, 75, stumped ...

BOER TOWNS BEFORE CAPTURE; Johannesburg Mines Long Since Abandoned -- False Business Agents Made Money. Share full article. Foreign Correspondence NEW YORK TIMES. July 9, 1900; ...

The centrifugal force of World War II split them sharply apart. In September 1939 Hertzog’s proposal of neutrality was defeated; Smuts became Prime Minister and the South African Parliament ...

Johannesburg Heritage Foundation to reopen Blockhouse Museum The Blockhouse Museum showcases the history of the Anglo-Boer War, which took place between 1899 and 1902. Written by ...

After the Second Boer War, the British transported as many as 9,000 prisoners to India, ... the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. Both of them were resource-rich. ...

This article was originally published with the title “ British and Boer Guns--A Lesson from the South African War ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 82 No. 3 (January 1900), p. 35 doi:10. ...