The Boer War

How it started The Boer War (1899-1902), also called the South African War or the Second Boer War, was a conflict in South Africa between Great Britain and the allied, Afrikaner populated, Transvaal (or South African Republic), and the Orange Free State, in what is now South Africa. After the British had acquired the Cape of Good Hope in 1795 and spread throughout southern Africa, tension mounted between the Dutch-descended Afrikaners, or Boers, and the British …

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