The First Boer War took place between 1880 and 1881, and the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902. At one time there were as many as 500,000 British soldiers in South Africa, while the Boers ...

MAFIKENG, South Africa — The centenary of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) is being marked here this year with a change of complexion. Throughout this century the conflict has been known as &#8… ...

He set forth, in the first place, that, at the end of the session of 1899, the Government had assured the House of Commons that there was little danger of war, and that at the end of the session ...

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 ...

For socialists the Boer War of 1899-1902 was a prefiguration of their experiences in the First World War, and in many ways the similarities are quite marked. Jingoism had been growing for years, ...

The Boer War, also known as the South African War, lasted from 1899 to 1902 and pitted the Empire against the two Boer republics. Article content Homes in London ...

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New York-based First Star Pictures is in Cannes unveiling Siege Of O'Kiepe, a $37m epic set during the Boer War of 1901. The project will shoot in 2008 in Australia and South Africa with producers ...

The outbreak of the First World War, coming little more than a decade after the Anglo-Boer war ended, presented white South Africans with a conundrum. Should they join Britain and her allies ...

"He was in fact the first officer to be killed in the Boer War." The conflict was fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics over the empire's influence in southern Africa ...

Major Dennison first "burnt powder" with the Orange Free Staters against the Basutos in 1865, and also fought in the war of 1881. At the opening of the Boer War he was living in Vryburg with his ...