Boer War

General Joubert, bought Mauser magazine rifles, firing smokeless ammunition, and a number of modern field guns and automatic weapons from the German armaments manufacturer Krupp, the French firm Creusot and the British company Maxim.

Dinge en Goete (Things and Stuff): This Day in History: Oct Boer War begins in South Africa

Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Boer War

Boer War Art Poetry and History

South Africa: A Boer Girl’s Memories of the Boer War and concentration camps

Kitcheners SCORCHED EARTH POLICY - Over 3.6 million Boer sheep were slaughtered as part of the much reviled Scorched Earth Policy

The Boer War, 1 of 4

If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything in it, And which is more you’ll be a Man, my son!

A Boer Kommando rides for the front.

Emily Hobhouse