The South African War: The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902The South African War 1899-1902 (variously known as the Anglo-Boer, or to Afrikaners as the English War, die Engelseoorlog, or the Second War of Freedom, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog) continues to generate considerable interest among authors and readers alike, fascinated by a conflict that embodied human drama, tragedy, heroism and military and political folly on a grand scale. |
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General Introduction by Peter Warwick | 7 |
British Imperial Policy and South Africa 18959 | 37 |
WAR | 57 |
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African interests Anglican Anglo-Boer areas Baden-Powell Barolong became Bechuanaland Bloemfontein Boer forces Boer women Botha Britain British army British forces British government Buller burghers Calvinist Cape Colony Cape Town Chamber of Mines Chamberlain Christiaan de Wet Church coloured commandos Commdt concentration camps corps Cronjé December deep-level Dutch economic empire English farms February fighting franchise gold mining Goldfield guerrilla January Johannesburg Kimberley Kitchener Kitchener's Kruger laager labour Ladysmith land large numbers Liberal London Lord Louis Botha Mafeking majority March ment military Milner mining industry ministers movement Natal National Scouts native October officers Orange Free Orange River Colony organized Party peace poems political position Pretoria pro-Boer Raid railway Rand recruiting Reef reform Regiment republican Rhodes Roberts Roberts's settlement siege Smuts society soldiers South Africa South African Republic South African War surrendered burghers Territories tion Tommies Tommy Atkins Transvaal troops Uitlander Union veld Volunteers Witwatersrand