A final proof of Boer ... British colonies would seriously endanger Great Britain's future possession of those colonies. The question is a racial one which can hardly be settled in any other way ...

proved vital in a war where mobility proved vital to the British in an increasingly bitter guerrilla war against a mobile enemy who knew the ground intimately.

The British Empire claimed this an outrage and went to war with the Boer republics. Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War. Credit: Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]. The Boers, mainly ...

The Marlborough Barracks housed the 6th Reserve Cavalry ... from the Curragh, British forces were under the command of General Lowe. Lowe was a veteran of the Boer War and had retired from ...

This is the original for reproduction. Cavalry are in the field escorting the observation balloon, riding hard (dead horse, bl) Drawing depicting the use of a military balloon during the Boer War / F.

The Second Boer War began in 1899 in the south of Africa. It was fought between the two Boer Republics and the British Empire. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to ...

In 1899, Canada agreed to send volunteers to serve under British command in the Boer War. (Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada C-007986, Montreal soldiers of C Company South African ...