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	Boer War - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Boer War (1899-1902), conflict in southern Africa between Britain and the allied, Afrikaner-populated Transvaal (or South African Republic) and Orange Free State, in what is now South Africa; also known as the South African War.
		This revolt was instigated by the British colonial statesman and financier Cecil Rhodes, then prime minister of the Cape Colony, who desired to bring all of southern Africa into the British Empire.
		Boer leaders, among them such soldiers and future statesmen as Louis Botha and Jan Christiaan Smuts, launched extensive and well-planned guerrilla warfare against the occupying British troops.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761577208__1/Boer_War.html (1079 words)

	Basutoland
		During Moshoeshoe's reign there were a series of clashes with the Boers of the Orange Free State, the British and with other native tribes.
		A treaty was signed at Aliwal in 1869 between the British and the Boer defining the boundaries of the protectorate, the arable land west of the Caledon River remained in Boer hands and is referred to as the Lost or Conquered Territory.
		During the Boer War the colony was neutral towards both forces.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Basutoland.html (578 words)

	Baxter's EduNET - Time Machine
		The 1896-97 Matabele revolt is defeated with difficulty.
		The Boer armies, outnumbered by at least 250,000 to 40,000, cannot win fighting a regular war, and are forced to fight guerrilla style.
		Boer farms were burnt down so the commandos would have no more food, and the women and children were moved to ("concentrated" in) central camps--hence, the term concentration camps.
	www.edunetconnect.com /cat/timemachine/125saf.html (445 words)

	South African Historical Events
		The Boers were a fast and highly mobile guerilla force, who used new smokeless cartridges and the thick forest to conceal their positions and employ hit and run tactics.
		Boer women and children were evicted from farms and villages were sent to concentration camps where many died of disease or went to endure the life of the commandos in the forests.
		The Boer War, which occurred one hundred years ago, “was not concerned with the principle of white domination, but to decide which of the two groups, British or Boer, was to exercise mastery over South Africa” (Belfield xxiv).
	www.eou.edu /~nknowles/fall2000/sahe.html (1959 words)

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		It must, there fore, be remembered that the rivalry between the Boers and the English, the course of which is now to be sketched, went on, not in vacuo, so to speak, but in the presence of a native population far outnumbering the English and the Boers taken together.
		Meanwhile, the interior was in a state of con fusion and disorder, the Boers being too few in number to reduce to submission their native en emies, and the half-breed hunting clans called Griquas, the offspring of Dutch fathers and Hot tentot mothers, who lived in the northeastern border of Cape Colony.
		The Boers wel comed the money that flowed into the exchequer when the value of the Rand district became known; but they took instant alarm at the stream of capitalists, engineers, traders, and min ersâ”all speaking the tongue of their hereditary foesâ”that threatened to overwhelm their inde pendence.
	fax.libs.uga.edu /DT926xB862/1f/briton_and_boer.txt (16380 words)

	Battle of Modder River - The Boer War
		The Boer invasion of Natal in the East of South Africa caused Major General George White’s force to be besieged in Ladysmith, north of the Tugela River.
		In the West, Boer forces under Cronje, De La Rey and Prinsloo crossed the border and laid siege to Mafeking in the North and Cecil Rhodes’ diamond mining capital, Kimberley and began an invasion of Cape Colony.
		On each occasion the Boers were fortunate there was no substantial British cavalry force to follow up the attacks or there would have been repeats of the slaughter inflicted on them at Elandslaagte.
	www.britishbattles.com /great-boer-war/modder-river.htm (1665 words)

	First Boer War : Battle of Majuba Hill
		The Boers were mainly mounted infantry, riding the ponies they used to tend their stock, many with a life times experience of marksmanship.
		Boer casualties are not known but are likely to have been trifling.
		Instead he attempted to win the war against the Boers with the inadequate resources available to him before he might be superceded by the arrival of General Roberts.
	www.britishbattles.com /first-boer-war/majuba-hill.htm (988 words)

	Boers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Boer interpretation of the bible led them to believe that the fls were inferior and morally flawed, and that there was nothing wrong in using them as slaves on their farms.
		As a result, the Boers became a pioneer group who developed tactics of warfare against the fls which relied heavily on their horse riding and rifle shooting skills, skills which became part of their tradition and which was to be of prime importance in their wars both with the native fls and the British.
		The Boers won a victory over poorly led British forces at Majuba Hill which resulted in the British returning administrative control of the Transvaal back to the Boers, but with the condition that the Transvaal was still part of the British empire.
	members.aol.com /glipoid/Boers.html (8159 words)

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		Since the earliest existence of the Boer nation they found the Dutch and later the British rule to be unbearable due to the suppression and undermining of the Boer way of life.
		The Boer nation's language was gradually phased out with the use of a foreign language within the education system and other institutions.
		The fact remains that the fatherland of the Boer nation, which includes the Transvaal, the Orange Free State, and Northern Natal (Vryheid - included with Transvaal in 1881) was robbed from them, and the Boer nation finds itself on a path today where their freedom is difficult to obtain.
	www.stopboergenocide.com /29301/113153.html (1880 words)

	Boer Leaders in the 2nd Boer War
		He suppressed a Boer revolt and in 1915 led the forces that conquered the German colony of South West Africa.
		Boer soldier and statesman, regarded by Afrikaner nationalists as one of their greatest heroes.
		In peacetime, de Wet, though a reluctant politician, served in the Volksraad (parliament) of the Transvaal and later in that of the Orange Free State.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-leaders/boer.htm (1286 words)

	Maritz Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many members of the government were themselves former Boers who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War, which had ended twelve years earlier.
		At the end of the Boer War those Boers who had fought to the end were known as "bitter enders"; by the time of the rebellion, those who had not taken the oath and wanted to start a new war had also become known as the "bitter enders".
		Compared to the fate of leading Irish rebels of the Easter Rising in 1916, the leading Boer rebels got off lightly with terms of imprisonment of six and seven years and heavy fines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maritz_Rebellion (1402 words)

	Boer War--Causes, Practices, Effects
		Dutch Farmer (Boers, or Afrikaners) first settled in the 1659 in what is now South Africa.
		By 1899, after strengthening his army, allying with the Orange Free State and counting on the sympathy of the majority Cape Boers, Kruger determines that war was inevitable and declared war on Britain.
		From 1900 to 1902 the Afrikaners went “commando” (guerrilla warfare) but were slowly ground up by mobile British troops on horseback, the use of concentration camps to keep Afrikaner families separate from the commandos, and sometimes atrocities by some British units.
	www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us /~bsilva/ib/paper2/wars/boer_handout.htm (696 words)

	Major Frederick Russell Burnham
		Below are some of the items the Canadian Boer War Museum has added to its collections in its ongoing efforts to preserve memorabilia from this period.
		Stamping identification on leather was a constant preoccupation of flsmiths attached to the military in the Boer War.
		Since BP and Burnham were close friends from Rhodesia days, when they fought the Matabele in 1896-97, it is highly probable that the "Major Burnham" on the strap, is indeed none other than the famous American Scout who so mightily impressed BP and the other British officers with his scouting prowess.
	www.goldiproductions.com /BoerWar_Museum/Boer90i_pastdis_burnham.html (1547 words)

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		The Boer population is a compound of Dutchmen, Frenchmen, Hugenots, Germans and Scotchmen.
		The constantly recurring and sanguinary conflicts between the Boers and the Zulus led England to extend her direct sovereign rights to Natal for the peace, protection and good government of all classes of men, who may have settled in the interior or vicinity of this important part of South Africa.
		However, the Boers felt it expedient to offer a satisfaction of some kind, and, in accordance with their usual methods, conceived in 1890 the device of creating a Second Volksraad, deprived of all executive power, to which naturalised aliens were eligible.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/7/9/6/17968/17968-8.txt (17976 words)

	Anglo Boer War - History - North West Province of South Africa
		This revolt was instigated by the British colonial statesman and financier Cecil Rhodes, then premier of the Cape Colony, who desired to bring all of southern Africa into the British Empire.
		Boer forces under the command of General De la Rey attacked the British garrison and railway siding at Kraaipan, south west of Mafikeng, thereby signalling the start of the Anglo-Boer War.
		During this time Sol Plaatje wrote his literary masterpiece "The Boer War Diary of Sol T Plaatje: an African at Mafikeng".
	www.tourismnorthwest.co.za /history/anglo_boer_war.html (1252 words)

	Louis Botha Summary
		In this setting the Boer had often been in danger of being crushed between the numerical superiority of the Africans and the economic, cultural, and military power of the British.
		The Boers continued to lose ground, and by June 4 Botha was forced to send a letter to Lord Roberts, the British commander, requesting an armistice to discuss the capitulation of Pretoria, the capital.
		Botha's Boer critics were offended by his conciliation with the English, charged that cooperation served English ends at the expense of Afrikaner cultural interests, and demanded separate development for the Boers and the Britons.
	www.bookrags.com /Louis_Botha (1529 words)

	Paul Kruger Summary
		Rhodes effected the geographical encirclement of the Boer republics by isolating Transvaal from the sea and the German territories.
		The First Boer War, also known as the "War of Independence", started in 1880, and the British forces were defeated in the decisive battle at Majuba in 1881.
		Paul, being the leader of the Boers, felt nothing but loathing for the British, whom he felt were trying to steal their land and make the natives submissive to their control.
	www.bookrags.com /Paul_Kruger (3568 words)

	Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1899, Kitchener was appointed chief of staff to Lord Roberts in the South African War.
		He reorganized transport, led an unsuccessful attack on Paardeberg, and suppressed the Boer revolt near Priska.
		By a slow extension of fortified blockhouses, the use of concentration camps for civilians, and the systematic denudation of the farm lands—methods for which he was much criticized—Kitchener finally secured Boer submission (1902).
	www.bartleby.com /65/ki/KitcheneH.html (506 words)

	History of South Africa Time Line 1488-2000 - Griqualand Griquatown Anderson s.com
		On 29 January the Boer republic of Graaff-Reinet was declared, but on 12 November the British took the town back by force.
		Boer republics north of Vaal unite as South African Republic with Pretoria as the capital.
		It was resisted by the Boers and on 02 January 1896, Jameson surrendered at Doornkop.
	griquatownandersons.com /SouthAfricanHistory.html (3249 words)

	Canada and the World
		Boer War (1899-1902), conflict in southern Africa between Britain and the allied, Afrikaner-populated Transvaal (or South African Republic) and Orange Free State, in what is now South Africa.
		The resentment on both sides grew, ultimately leading to a revolt by the Uitlanders in Johannesburg against the Afrikaner government.This revolt was instigated by the British colonial statesman and financier Cecil Rhodes, then prime minister of the Cape Colony, who desired to bring all of southern Africa into the British Empire.
		If you have any research, homewok, or project on a boer war then you are on the right spot.
	www.freewebs.com /historycanadahamza/theboerwar.htm (940 words)

	Boer - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Boer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Dutch settler or descendant of Dutch and Huguenot settlers in South Africa; see also Afrikaner.
		I thought so--and an hour's ride from your farm lives a Boer with four fingers only on his right hand.
		A little longer, and the shaggy Boer was in our midst upon his shaggy pony, with a half-scared, half-incredulous look in his deep-set eyes.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Boer (172 words)

	Anglo Boer War
		The Afrikaners, who were primarily farmers, resented the newcomers, whom they called 'Uitlanders' ('foreigners.') In token of their feeling, they taxed them heavily and denied them voting rights.
		The towns of Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberley were put under a state of siege by the Boer forces.
		The British poured in thousands of re-enforcements into South Africa and eventually the Boers were pushed out of Natal and the Cape Colony, the Boers took the war into what has become know as the guerrilla phase.
	www.byeways.co.za /anglo_boer_war.htm (829 words)

	New Page 3
		After gold and diamonds were discovered in the Transvaal, tensions between native Boers and British "uitlanders," aggravated by guerilla raids and the repressive policies of the British Governor of the Cape, became more intense.
		After the Boers attacked Cape Colony and Natal in October 1899, the second war, which lasted until 1902, was underway.
		Boers invade British South Africa and besiege Ladysmith, Kimberley and Mafeking.
	www.chss.iup.edu /jrmcdono/imperialism.htm (4494 words)

	WWW-VL History Index: South Africa
		From the Jameson Raid to Bloemfontein: Debating the Origins of the Boer War, by Garett Moritz
		Boer Military Figures of the Anglo=Boer War, A-J
		Boer Military Figures of the Anglo=Boer War, K-Z
	vlib.iue.it /history/africa/south_africa.html (642 words)

	HistoryWiz: The Wealth of South Africa
		In 1877 the British took over The Transvaal, which forced the Boers to retake the region by force.
		The revolt, named after its leader Leander Jameson, was a failure but it had important consequences.
		The British saw The Transvaal's wealth as a threat to its dominance in Africa, and The Boer War began in 1899.
	www.historywiz.com /wealth.htm (320 words)

	Boer War - MSN Encarta
		Great books about your topic, Boer War, selected by Encarta editors
		Introduction; Tensions Leading to War; Major Battles; Guerrilla Resistance; Treaty of Vereeniging
		He exhausted the enemy by devastating the Afrikaner farms that sustained and sheltered the guerrillas, placing fl African and Afrikaner women and children in concentration camps, and building a strategic chain of formidable iron blockhouses for his troops.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577208/Boer_War.html (887 words)

	Louis Botha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Two years later Botha fought in the Second Boer War, initially under Lucas Meyer in Northern Natal, and later as a general commanding and fighting with impressive capability at Colenso and Spion kop.
		During his visit to England on this occasion General Botha declared the whole-hearted adhesion of the Transvaal to the British empire, and his intention to work for the welfare of the country regardless of racial differences.
		Botha, who was still looked upon as the leader of the Boer people, took a prominent part in politics, advocating always measures which he considered as tending to the maintenance of peace and good order and the re-establishment of prosperity in the Transvaal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Botha (528 words)

	Lawrence of Arabia . General Allenby \| PBS
		Edmund Allenby was one of Britain's most successful commanders during World War I. Born in 1861, he enjoyed a privileged education before joining the Inniskilling Dragoons, and serving with distinction in Southern Africa (1884-1888) and in the Boer War (1889-1901).
		Allenby was transferred to the Palestine Front where the only real danger was that of boredom.
		Here he encountered an excitable, scruffy officer - Captain T.E. Lawrence - fresh from his victory at Aqaba and suggesting ways to assist the Revolt.
	www.pbs.org /lawrenceofarabia/players/allenby.html (414 words)

	Rural IQ
		The Boer War on the other hand, was a war of national liberation from the verkrampte Boer tyranny and the native Africans’ best hope of joining in 20th century affluence, alas betrayed by the wimps and traitors of the Asquith government.
		If I understood well, during the second Boer war the British blew up all farms without men (understood was that they were Boer fighters), so the women and children had no other choice as going to the concentration camp, which meant death by neglect and sexual exploitation.
		Calvin, the genocide the Boers face at present is of course an outrage of the first magnitude and absolutely intolerable.
	majorityrights.com /index.php/weblog/comments/rural_iq (5757 words)

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