Second Boer War
The Second Boer War (Dutch: [Tweede Boerenoorlog] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), Afrikaans: [Tweede Vryheidsoorlog] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) or Tweede Boereoorlog) was a war. It lasted from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902. In the war, the British Empire fought against the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic) and the Orange Free State. Winston Churchill, a newspaper reporter who later became famous, was captured but escaped. At this time, the British made use of concentration camps. This weakened the Boers. It helped the British stop the war from lasting any longer.
The British troops won the war. As a result, both republics were annexed to the British Empire. Later, both were eventually 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 it 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 or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog ("Second War of Liberation" or lit. "Second Freedom War") or the Engelse oorlog (English War).[1]
The Second Boer War is a part of what are known as the Boer Wars. These include the lesser known First Boer War that took place from December 1880 to March 1881.
Second Boer War Media
- Afrika Politische Uebersicht Maerz 1885.jpg
The geography of Africa in 1885, between the First and Second Boer Wars
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Boer victory over the British at the Battle of Majuba Hill, First Boer War, 1881
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A sketch showing the arrest of Jameson after the failed raid, in 1896
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Paul Kruger, leader of the South African Republic (Transvaal)
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Mauser 1895 bolt-action rifle (at the Auckland Museum)
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A British Lee–Metford rifle used by British troops during the Second Boer War
- England und der Krieg in Südafrika - Rata Langa 1899 (rotated).jpg
1899 German political cartoon: "War and Capitalism, or the transformation of human blood into gold"
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Boers in a trench at Mafeking, 1899
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War theatre in northern Natal
