empire thus recapitulated their ideal of Britain's imperial project in the Boer POW camps. Highlighting the intercoloniality of this process, India's viceroy, Lord George Curzon, played as prominent a role as did the War Office, or South Africa's soon-to-be pro-consul, Lord Alfred Milner....
Railways in South Africathe Boers' strategy was to destroy the railway installationsThe railways were considered to be of prime importance by the BritishThe railways in South Africa were badly damaged during the Anglo-Boer War by the armed forces of the two Republics during their retreat and the...
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In the process both Edwardian Britain's sense of self and the contested memory of the conflict in South Africa are thrown into relief. In the concluding sections of the book the focus falls on other forms of remembrance sites, namely the multi-volume histories produced by the War Office and...
(also the South African War) a war (1899-1902) between the British and the Boers, Dutch farmers who had settled in southern Africa. The Boers had established two independent republics (Transvaal and Orange Free State) in what is now South Africa, and the British wanted to control the...
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishˌBoer ˈWar, the (also the South African War) (1899–1902) a war in South Africa in which the British army successfully fought against two Boer republics called the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, and made them part of the British Empir...
Free Essay: The Boer War was a conflict that lasted from 1899 to 1902 in southern Africa between Great Britain and their allies, Transvaal (South African...
The Boer Wars was the name given to the South African Wars of 1880-1 and 1899-1902, that were fought between the British and the descendants of the Dutch settlers (Boers) in Africa. After the first Boer War, William Gladstone granted the Boers self-government in the Transvaal. (1) ...
The Great Boer War is Arthur Conan Doyle s authentic and thorough account of the conflict which gripped turn-of-the-century Britain. When the Boer War broke out in South Africa in 1899, Conan Doyle was already a hugely successful, middle-aged writer. Nevertheless, he was determined to see ...
“On the high seas” as at the 11th October 1899 are an additional 7,418 British Troops on their way to South Africa – called up to bolster an inadequate British force strength in the event of war.Even with their arrival at the end of October 1899 (after the war has been declared) ...