A compromise was reached and Canada agreed to send volunteers to serve under British command in the Boer War. It represented the first large group of Canadian soldiers to serve overseas.

Cook Government acknowledges May 31 as Boer War DayThe Boer War is the only war Western Australia, as a separate entity, was represented by the ...

Military and political leaders took a lesson from the Boer War, and made soldiers in the First World War sign up for the duration of the war and six months of occupation, he says. It was easy to ...

What led to the Anglo-Boer War? The first Europeans to settle in what is today South Africa were the Dutch in 1652. In 1795 and again in 1806, the British took over control of the Cape Colony.

Mr Bond sailed aboard the Surrey with the 1st Australian Horse ... from the same area – both Yuin – to serve in the Boer War. And these two men are the only two I've found written ...

"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 ...