For there was no question of segregating the coloured who spoke the Afrikaner's language, shared his outlook and stood closer to one than to Africans.

* 1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British.

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

During the Second Boer War on 15 November 1899, Winston Churchill, then a war-correspondent, was travelling on board an armoured train when it was ambushed by Boer commandos.

Harcourt's resignation briefly muted the turmoil in the party, but the beginning of the Second Boer War soon nearly broke the party apart, with Rosebery and a circle of supporters including important future Liberal leaders H. H.

* Bloody Sunday ( 1900 ), a day of high casualties in the Second Boer War, South Africa

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

In addition to battling the armies of other European Empires ( and of its former colonies, the United States, in the American War of 1812 ), in the battle for global supremacy, the British Army fought the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars, and the Boxer Rebellion, Māori tribes in the first of the New Zealand Wars, Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daula's forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Boers in the First and Second Boer Wars, Irish Fenians in Canada during the Fenian raids and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War.

During the Siege of Ladysmith in the Second Boer War, a Bovril-like paste was unofficially produced from horse meat within the garrison.

After the second Anglo-Boer War, a Boer diaspora occurred.

The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against Germany so soon after they had had a long bloody war with the British.

Many Boers had German ancestry and many members of the government were themselves former Boer military leaders who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War, which had ended only twelve years earlier.

* Fritz Joubert Duquesne, a Boer Captain known as the Black Panther, served in the Second Boer War.

Following the experience of the South African War of 1899-1902 ( where mounted Boer citizen commandos fighting on foot from cover proved superior to regular cavalry ) the British Army withdrew lances for all but ceremonial purposes and placed a new emphasis on training for dismounted action.

The former Boer general, Jan Smuts, wrote to David Lloyd George in 1919: " My experience in South Africa has made me a firm believer in political magnanimity, and your and Campbell-Bannerman's great record still remains not only the noblest but also the most successful page in recent British statesmanship ".

I had some experience of successful mounted surprise attacks on the Boer camps in the South African war.

His inspiration for this organisation was his experience during the Siege of Mafeking in the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ).

The RAMC began to develop during the Boer War, but it was during the First World War that it reached its apogee both in size and experience.

While in exile in Madagascar, he wrote about his experience of the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ), so that, when it was eventually edited and published in 1929 as Commando: A Boer Journal Of The Boer War, it still had the freshness and detail of an account written soon after the war.

Two decades later, Rossall had its first major experience of warfare with roughly one hundred O. R. s serving in the Boer War, nearly half of them winning distinctions or mentions in despatches.

However, the subsequent period saw the departure of manager van Gaal along with an exodus of many key players including Clarence Seedorf in 1995 ; Edgar Davids, Michael Reiziger, Finidi George, and Nwankwo Kanu in 1996 ; Patrick Kluivert, Marc Overmars, and Winston Bogarde in 1997 ; Ronald de Boer and Frank de Boer in 1998 ; and Edwin van der Sar and Jari Litmanen in 1999.

Territorial conflicts with both British and Boer settlers arose periodically, including Moshoeshoe's notable victory over the Boers in the Free State-Basotho War, but the final war in 1867 with an appeal to Queen Victoria, who agreed to make Basutoland a British protectorate.

Other islands such as Morgan's Island held 884 men, including 27 officers, Tucker's Island held 809 Boer Prisoners of War, Burt's Island-607, and Port's Island held 35.

The first half was played by members of Arsenal and Ajax's current squads, while the second was played by famous ex-players from both sides, including Ian Wright, Patrick Vieira, Marc Overmars, Emmanuel Petit and David Seaman for Arsenal, and Marco van Basten, Danny Blind, Johan Cruijff, Frank and Ronald de Boer for Ajax.

Different portions of the concession featured a British Army encampment, several South African native villages ( including Zulu, Bushmen, Swazi, and Ndebele ) and a arena in which soldiers paraded, sporting events and horse races were held and major battles from the Second Boer War were re-enacted twice a day.

Kitchener subsequently inherited and expanded the successful strategies devised by Roberts to force the Boer commandos to submit, including concentration camps and the scorched earth policy.

Chamberlain visited South Africa between 26 December 1902 and 25 February 1903, seeking to promote Anglo-Afrikaner conciliation and the colonial contribution to the British Empire, and trying to meet people in the newly unified South Africa, including those who had recently been enemies during the Boer War.

Two duos entered: Ina Brouwer ( former CPN ) combined with Mohammed Rabbae ( independent ), while Paul Rosenmöller ( independent ) formed a combination with Leoni Sipkes ( former PSP ); there were also five individual candidates, including Wim de Boer ( former chair of the PPR and member of the Senate ), Herman Meijer ( former CPN, future chair of the party ) and Ineke van Gent ( former PSP and future MP )).

These breeds were bred with the indigenous African dogs, including the dog of the Khoikhoi people, which resulted in the Boer hunting dogs, a forerunner to the modern Rhodesian Ridgeback.

Born near Glasgow, Reid worked a number of jobs as a young adult — including wholesaler, army medic ( during the Second Boer War ), farmhand, lumberjack, and dentist — and immigrated to Canada in 1903.

The Boer uprising caught by surprise the six small British forts scattered around Transvaal, housing some 2, 000 troops between them, including irregulars with as few as fifty men at Lydenburg in the east where Anstruther had just left.

Several Boer groups stormed the hill and drove off the British at great cost to the British, including the loss of Major-General Colley.

He supported the imperial policies of the Conservative government, including the Second Boer War, which made him highly unpopular with the radical, anti-war, wing of the Liberal Party.

However, later developments, including the discovery of diamonds and gold in these states, led to Second Boer War.

To mitigate this problem, the army issued old stored uniforms, including First Boer War-vintage red jackets.

Officers and men of the RNR soon gained the respect of their naval counterparts with their professional skills in navigation and seamanship and served with distinction in a number of conflicts including the Boer War and Boxer Rebellion.

Hamilton travelled 400 miles from Bloemfontein to Pretoria fighting 10 major battles with Boer forces ( including the battle of Rooiwal ) and fourteen minor ones, and was recommended twice for the Victoria Cross ( which was considered inappropriate because of his rank ).

This involved sweeping the country bare of everything that could give sustenance to the Boer guerrillas, including women and children, and included the destruction of crops, burning down homesteads and farms, poisoning wells, and salting fields, and saw non-combatants ( Boer families and sympathisers ) interned in concentration camps where mortality among the women and children reached an extreme whereby 50 % of the population of Boer children under 16 died.

A collection of his papers is held at the University of London library, and embraces many of his political interests, including universal adult suffrage, working hours and conditions, employment, pensions, poor laws, temperance, social conditions, local government, South African labour, and the Boer War.

The Regimental Signs for all New Zealand regiments feature the kiwi, including those that fought in the Second Boer War, then with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps in World War I.

A severe outbreak of influenza in 1900 led to the death of 3. 3 % of the population, although it affected neither the Boer prisoners nor the troops guarding them.

The death is presented in some detail in G. A. Henty's The Young Colonists: A Tale of The Zulu and Boer Wars ( 1885 ).

The revolt in the German protectorate had been, nearly a year before the death of Morenga, the indirect occasion of a " Boer raid " into Cape Colony.

Her first marriage, from which she took the name by which she is generally known, produced two children, Alan " Beo " Urquhart and Stella, and ended with the death of her first husband in the Boer War in 1900.

When Olson knew he was dying of cancer, he instructed his literary executor Charles Boer and others to organise and produce the final book in the sequence following Olson's death.

He was sentenced to death for murder after the shooting of Boer prisoners.

As a younger son, he was not expected to inherit the title, but on the death of his brother Archibald, Earl of Ava at the Siege of Ladysmith in the Second Boer War on 11 January 1900, he became the heir and assumed the courtesy title Earl of Ava himself before succeeding his father in 1902.

With the First Boer War going on, Wood was sent back to South Africa in January 1881 with the local rank of major general, as second-in-command to Sir George Colley, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in Natal, succeeding him after his defeat and death at Majuba Hill ( 27 February 1881 ).

* Fritz Joubert Duquesne ( 1877-1956 ), Boer / German spy who allegedly was responsible for the death of Field Marshal Kitchener in 1916

King concludes that “ both the content and the text ’ s structure lead the reader inward toward the identity, power and freedom of the true self, the soul set free from the Powers of Matter and the fear of death .” “ The Gospel of Mary is about inter-Christian controversies, the reliability of the disciples ’ witness, the validity of teachings given to the disciples through post-resurrection revelation and vision, and the leadership of women ” ( De Boer 2004 ).

The first case was that of the shooting of the Boer commando, Visser, who was captured after the death of Capt.

But according to Nick Bleszynski, the order was common knowledge among the Bushveldt Carbineers and other regiments well before Morant's arrival at Fort Edward in mid-1901 and it was widely known among the troops that other units of British forces in South Africa had shot Boer prisoners, for example the Canadian Scouts avenging the death of Major " Gat " Howard.

His prophesies about the Boer War, the 1914-1915 rebellion, the death of General Koos de la Rey and other events brought him to prominence among the Boere and South Africans in general.

The idea of the school was originally proposed to Queen Victoria as a memorial to the Scottish dead of the Boer Wars, and after her death it was thought fit to name it in her memory.