The Boer War October 10, 1899 – May 31, 1902 Mary Cathart Borer

The Boer War October 10, 1899 May 31, 1902 

Author: Mary Cathart Borer 

Publisher: Lutterworth Press  

Edition: First 1971 

ISBN: 0 7188 1805 9

Language: English  

Condition: Good. Clean copy with no markings and tight binding.  

Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket     

Pages: 90. Print with images  

Additional Information

South African War, also called Boer War, Second Boer War, or Anglo-Boer War; to Afrikaners, also called Second War of Independence, war fought from October 11, 1899, to May 31, 1902, between Great Britain and the two Boer (Afrikaner) republicsthe South African Republic (Transvaal) and the Orange Free Stateresulting in British victory.

Although it was the largest and most costly war in which the British engaged between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I (spending more than £200 million), it was fought between wholly unequal protagonists. The total British military strength in Southern Africa reached nearly 500,000 men, whereas the Boers could muster no more than about 88,000. But the British were fighting in a hostile country over difficult terrain, with long lines of communications, while the Boers, mainly on the defensive, were able to use modern rifle fire to good effect at a time when attacking forces had no means of overcoming it. The conflict provided a foretaste of warfare fought with breach-loading rifles and machine guns, with the advantage to the defenders, that was to characterize World War I.

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