There were also a number of other famous people from Athea, including the Ahern brothers of Olympian fame, David Quaid served with the Royal Munster Fusiliers from 1897 – 1909 he fought at the battles of Belmont, The Modder River and the Relief of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War in South Africa 1899 – 1902, he later served with his regiment in India under Lord Kitchener.

In the following seasons, while most of the Dutch contingent at Barcelona, like the de Boer brothers and Zenden, were transferred, Cocu managed to stay with the club.

He and one of his brothers then joined the Boer forces " by virtue of having thrown our belongings through a carriage window and climbing aboard ".

2 Brothers on the 4th Floor is a Dutch eurodance band, consisting of the brothers Martin and Bobby Boer.

2 Brothers on the 4th Floor was revived by the Boer brothers in 1993.

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.

The Boer quest for independence manifested in a tradition of declaring republics, which predates the arrival of the British ; when the British arrived, Boer republics had already been declared and were in rebellion from the VOC ( Dutch East India Company ).

Not all of those executed were leaders: Willie Pearse described himself as " a personal attaché to my brother, Patrick Pearse "; John MacBride had not even been aware of the Rising until it began, but had fought against the British in the Boer War fifteen years before ; Thomas Kent did not come out at all — he was executed for the killing of a police officer during the raid on his house the week after the Rising.

The Khoikhoi had lost economic and political independence and had been absorbed into Boer society.

A treaty had been signed with the Boer of Griqualand in 1843 and an agreement made with the British in 1853 following a minor war.

The Boer had a number of military successes, killing possibly 1, 500 Basotho soldiers, and annexed an expanse of arable land which they were able to retain following a treaty at Thaba Bosiu.

The Apartheid system enacted a nation-wide social policy " separate development " with the National Party victory in 1948, following the " colour bar "- discriminatory legislation dating back to the beginning of the Union of South Africa and the Boer republics before which, while repressive to black South Africans along with other minorities, had not gone nearly so far.

From 1835 until 1838, Boer settlers started to cross the Vaal and they had several skirmishes with the Ndebele.

The Boer republics were merged into Union of South Africa in 1910 ; it had internal self-government but its foreign policy was controlled by London and it was an integral part of the British Empire.

In the First Boer War of 1880 – 81 the Boers of the Transvaal Republic had proved skilful fighters in resisting the British attempt at annexation, in causing in a series of British defeats.

Of the seven sieges in the First Boer War, the Boers had won none.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.

" However Sir Bartle Frere had already been in to the Cape Colony as governor and high commissioner since 1877 with the brief of creating a Confederation of South Africa from the various British colonies, Boer Republics and native states and his plans were well advanced.

Colley's decision to initiate the attack at Majuba Hill when truce discussions were already underway appears to have been foolhardy particularly as there was limited strategic value, as the Boer positions were out of rifle range from the summit.

By 1898, he was a war correspondent for the Daily Mail in the Boer War, having now adopted the byline of " Edgar Wallace " ( taken from the author of Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace -- there was already a Richard Wallace working in the Press Corps ).

In 1898, then, as negotiations over the voting rights of British settlers in the Boer territories of Transvaal and Orange Free State failed and the Boer War broke out, he needed little encouragement when in December Basil Williams, a colleague at Westminster and already a member of the volunteer Honourable Artillery Company, suggested that they should enlist together.

In one and a half year at the helm of Ajax, Frank de Boer already won 2 championships, his 7th in total, when including the 5 he already won as a player.

British encroachment into areas of South Africa already settled by the Afrikaner Boers and the competition for resources and land that developed between them as a result, led to the Second Boer War in 1899.

" Although had already long lived in the area when the Boers arrived, the Bafokeng bought land rights from the Boers, and they purchased their first tracts of land in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century from the colonial rulers, some in exchange for serving in the Boer Wars.

In contemporary South Africa and due to Broederbond propaganda, Boer and Afrikaner have been used interchangeably despite the fact that the Boers are the smaller segment within the Afrikaner designation as the Afrikaners of Cape Dutch origin are larger.

From 2006 to 2010 the head of the secretariat was Yvo de Boer ; on May 17, 2010 his successor, Christiana Figueres from Costa Rica has been named.

As Roberts's army occupied Pretoria, the Boer fighters in the Orange Free State had been driven into a fertile area known as the Brandwater Basin in the north east of the Republic.

Each Boer commando unit was sent to the district from which its members had been recruited, which meant that they could rely on local support and personal knowledge of the terrain and the towns within the district thereby enabling them to live off the land.

Jo had previously been married to art critic and journalist Dr. C H. de Boer ( Karel de Boer ), and she brought their daughter, Viola, into the van Meegeren household.

I think he was an incurable romantic and consequently a little afraid of his emotions and perhaps ashamed of them ... he had been a young hussar in the Boer War and had been present at the relief of Mafeking.

In July 1901 she was appointed to lead the British Government's commission to South Africa to investigate conditions in the concentration camps that had been created there in the wake of the Second Boer War.

Haggard knew Africa well, having travelled deep within the continent as a 19-year-old during the Anglo-Zulu War and the First Boer War, where he had been impressed by South Africa's vast mineral wealth and by the ruins of ancient lost cities being uncovered, such as Great Zimbabwe.

Australian soldiers Harry " Breaker " Morant and Peter Handcock were shot by a British firing squad in South Africa on February 27, 1902, for alleged war crimes during the Boer War ; questions have since been raised as to whether they received a fair trial.

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.

At the start of World War I strategy was dominated by the offensive thinking that had been in vogue since 1870, despite the more recent experiences of the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ) and Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 05 ), where the machine gun demonstrated its defensive capabilities.

The scheme of colour is reticent ; had the picture been exhibited at the time of the Second Boer War of 1900, the colour would have been called khaki ; the design is simple, uniting nature to art with a rare felicity, with the likeness being found satisfactory by the sitter's friends.

The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa that had been proclaimed a British colony on May 4, 1843 after the British government had annexed the Boer Republic of Natalia.

He fought in the Second Boer War with the City Imperial Volunteers and served as secretary to Lord Milner ( a position that had also been held by adventure-novelist John Buchan ), during which time he dedicated himself to working for a united self-governing South Africa.

When Boer families first reached the area they discovered that it had been recently devastated by a section of the Zulu tribe under a brilliant, but ruthless and cruel leader named Mzilikazi ( sometimes spelled Moselekatse ) and his people afterward called the Matebele.

In the opinion, moreover, of Dr Theal, who has written the history of the Boer Republics and has been a consistent supporter of the Boers, the annexation of Griqualand West was probably in the best interests of the Free State.