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    The Second Boer War (Afrikaans: Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, lit. 'Second Freedom War', 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Transvaal...
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    During the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), the British operated concentration camps in the South African Republic, Orange Free State, Natal, and the...
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    The First Boer War (Afrikaans: Eerste Vryheidsoorlog, lit. 'First Freedom War'), was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881 between the United...
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  • the Second Boer War occurred both within and outside of the British Empire. Among the British public, there was initially much support for the war, though...
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    awarded to 78 members of the British Armed Forces for action during the Second Boer War. The Victoria Cross is a military decoration awarded for valour "in...
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  • The Second Boer War saw attempted application of bombardment as an alternative to the use of ground forces. In most battles fought during the conflict...
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    federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia. At the outbreak of the Second Boer War, each of these separate colonies maintained their own, independent...
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  • The Boer War is a 1914 film, directed by George Melford about the Second Boer War. Edward Clisbee as General Lambert, retired Jane Wolfe as Mrs. Lambert...
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    "commando" into the English language during the Second Boer War of 1899–1902 as per Costica Andrew. In 1658, war erupted between the Dutch settlers at Cape...
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    The Second Boer War Memorial lies in the city centre of York, in England. The war memorial lies on Duncombe Place, near York Minster. It commemorates...
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  • Boer War usually refers to the Second Boer War (1899–1902), fought between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free...
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    Boer revolt, Third Boer War, or the Five Shilling rebellion, was an armed pro-German insurrection in South Africa in 1914, at the start of World War I...
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    Empire in South Africa during the Second Anglo-Boer War from 1899–1901. Of the fortifications constructed during the war, around 441 were solid masonry blockhouses...
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  • World War, while Martin-Leake was awarded his first VC for actions in the Second Boer War, and his second for actions during the First World War. Charles...
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  • British. The Second Boer War, also known as the Second Anglo-Boer War, the Second Freedom War (Afrikaans) and referred to as the South African War in modern...
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    Boer foreign volunteers were participants who volunteered their military services to the Boers in the Second Boer War. Although there was much international...
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    Civil War (1861–1865), the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), the First and Second Boer Wars (1880–1881 and 1899–1902). During the Second Boer War Winston...
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  • the Ossewakop and Voortrekkerkop passes south of town. During the Second Boer War, the British built twenty-one blockhouses between Volksrust and Wakkerstroom...
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    Sir John Milbanke, 10th Baronet (category Second Boer War recipients of the Victoria Cross)
    second lieutenant in the 10th Hussars on 23 November 1892, and promoted to lieutenant on 18 April 1894. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War...
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  • Beyers: Second Boer War General Chris Botha: Second Boer War General Ben Bouwer: Second Boer War & World War I General Philip Botha: Second Boer War General...
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    in organizing a Boer resistance which led to expulsion of the British from the Transvaal. The Boers then fought the Second Boer War in the late 19th...
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    (specifically Afrikaner) tradition. The republics came to an end after the Second Boer War of 1899–1902, which resulted in British annexation and later (in 1910)...
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    Niko Bagration (redirect from Niko the Boer)
    volunteer officer in the Boer army during the Second Boer War (Anglo-Boer war). He was also known in Georgia as Niko the Boer (ნიკო ბური, Niko Buri). Son...
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    Great Boer War is a non-fiction work on the Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1900 by Smith, Elder & Co. By the end of the war in 1902...
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    Frederick Roberts (VC, born 1872) (category British military personnel killed in the Second Boer War)
    Empire. At the age of 27, Roberts went with the King's Rifles to the Second Boer War, when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Victoria...
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    1895-1896 and the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899. The British mine owners orchestrated the coup of the Boer government, which controlled the Witwatersrand...
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    The Carnatic wars were a series of military conflicts in the middle of the 18th century in India's coastal Carnatic region, a dependency of Hyderabad State...
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    Daniel Theron (category People of the Second Boer War)
    – 5 September 1900) was a Boer military officer, teacher and lawyer best known for his service during the Second Boer War. Born in Tulbagh, Cape Colony...
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    non-combatants during the Second Boer War, the mass internment of Japanese-American citizens by the US during the Second World War, the Nazi concentration...
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    Emily Hobhouse (category People of the Second Boer War)
    concentration camps in South Africa built to incarcerate Boer and African civilians during the Second Boer War. Born in St Ive, near Liskeard in Cornwall, she...
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