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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 ...
The Boer "plan had been well made, but in execution it had failed, and while the failure is to be laid in part to a certain tardiness and lack of synchronism in their own movements, it was due yet ...
A collection of family papers which spans more than six centuries and three continents has been returned to Jersey. The de ...
The Boer war is one of Gold, not of God. ... England, with all its greatness and glorious history, has often been too much lauded for its contribution to Anglo-Saxon supremacy.
The Anglo-Boer War is often thought of as a “white man’s war” between the British and the Boers. However, research shows South Africa’s tribal population took part in the war ...
The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) was more than a conflict between the British Empire and the Boer republics of South Africa; its impact reverberated worldwide at the beginning of the 20th century.
IT'S not quite 100 years since the Anglo-Boer War cast the shadow of death, misery and embitterment across the South Africa of that era. But these events which helped shape the modern SA have receded ...
Burgersdorp, for Anglo-Boer War travellers, offers rich pickings. The town square still sports an ornate drinking fountain dedicated to Queen Victoria and donated just before hostilities broke out.
In a attempt to identify the projectile it was discovered that the treasure hunters stumbled onto a 6 inch rail-gun projectile, dating from the Anglo Boer War era between 1899 and 1902.
Hlalele says there have been calls to address the whitewashing of history by renaming the 'Anglo-Boer War' to the 'South African War'. "There were Blacks on both sides.
The Anglo-Boer War Museum has, among other memorabilia, a cricket bat presented to a prisoner named Charles Morgan in Ahmednagar when he scored 77 in a match. Prison break.
Nothing beats the everlasting emotional and visceral impact of war films. From the Anglo-Boer War, and the first and second World Wars, to the battle Of Midway, these films gloriously celebrate ...