The Boer nation has revealed a distinct Calvinist culture and the majority of Boers today are still members of a Reformed Church.

What later became South Africa was not, during the late nineteenth century, one single, united nation ; rather, the territory had four distinct entities: the two British colonies of Cape Colony and Natal ; and the two Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic, more commonly referred to as the Transvaal.

The Orange River Colony was the British colony created after this nation first occupied ( 1900 ) and then annexed ( 1902 ) the independent Orange Free State in the Second Boer War.

His father was a shopkeeper and a deeply religious man who decided to move his family to South Africa in 1903 because of his sympathy towards the Afrikaner nation after the Second Boer War.

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

Boer (,, or ; ) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ( which are together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal.

Boer is the specific ethnic group within the larger Afrikaans speaking population.

The BCVO ( Movement for Christian-National Education ) is a federation of 47 Calvinist private schools, primarily in the Free State and the Transvaal, committed to educating Boer children from grade 0 through to 12.

* 1902 – Second Boer War: Harry ' Breaker ' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.

* 1900 – The Second Boer War: The 118-day " Siege of Ladysmith " is lifted.

Further purification is effected by a chemical transport reaction developed by Arkel and de Boer: In a closed vessel, hafnium reacts with iodine at temperatures of 500 ° C, forming hafnium ( IV ) iodide ; at a tungsten filament of 1700 ° C the reverse reaction happens, and the iodine and hafnium are set free.

The Krugerrand is so named because the obverse, designed by Otto Schultz, bears the face of Boer statesman Paul Kruger, four-term president of the old South African Republic.

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.

* M is Muziek, Monoloog en Moord ( 1993 ) ( text by Lodewijk de Boer ) Music theatre work

During the Second Boer War, a Boer force attempting to sneak up on the Royal Canadian Dragoons was defeated after their movements startled the nearby springbok, thus alerting the Canadian sentries, which is why the Dragoons have the springbok as their cap badge and as their mascot.

; 1899: The Second Boer War is fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics.

** Second Boer War: The British House of Commons ' vote of censure over the British government's handling of the war is defeated.

* February 15 – Second Boer War: The Siege of Kimberley is lifted.

The current official version is the 1932 arrangement by Walther Boer.

The conflict is commonly referred to as The Boer War but is also known as the South African War outside South Africa, the Anglo-Boer War among most South Africans, and in Afrikaans as the Anglo-Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog (" Second War of Liberation " or lit.

One strong argument is that Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War, did not believe the Boers were preparing for war, and also believed that if Britain were to send large numbers of troops, it would strike too aggressive a posture and so prevent a negotiated settlement being reached or even encourage a Boer attack.

It is best known internationally for the Siege of Mafeking, the most famous engagement of the Second Boer War.

Dennis Nicolaas Bergkamp (; born 10 May 1969 ) was a Dutch professional footballer and now is the assistant manager to Frank de Boer at Ajax.

By May 1902, the last of the Boer troops surrendered mourning the deaths of 26, 000 mainly women and children who died in British internment.

As a result, the Transvaal reluctantly acquiesced to the immigration of uitlanders ( foreigners ), mainly from Britain, who came to the Boer region in search of fortune and employment.

This mainly Irish regiment was marching westward toward Pretoria, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Anstruther, when halted by a Boer commando group.

The Boer Republics ( sometimes also referred to as Boer states ) were independent self-governed republics created by the northeastern frontier branch of the Dutch-speaking ( proto Afrikaans ) inhabitants of the north eastern Cape Province and their descendants ( variously named Trekboers, Boers, Afrikaners and Voortrekkers ) in mainly the northern and eastern parts of what is now the country of South Africa.

As Colley advanced up the slope of the Ingogo he received word from his scouting party that a mainly mounted Boer force under Gen. N J Smith and Comdt.

The Imperial Yeomanry was a British volunteer cavalry regiment that mainly saw action during the Second Boer War.

The total Boer casualties may perhaps have amounted to 150, mainly due to shell-fire.

The regiment did not fight in the Boer War in South Africa, but contributed volunteers for the various Canadian Contingents, mainly to the 2nd ( Special Service ) Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry.

The republican ideal was a new one to Cape Dutch descended Afrikaners but not to those of Boer descent: in the 1830s, the Great Trek had brought about the formation of three independent Boer republics — the ephemeral Natalia Republic ( today KwaZulu-Natal ), the South African Republic ( later Transvaal ) and the Orange Free State ( called simply Free State today ).

Tensions also escalated with the Boer settlers from the Transvaal.

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

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 ).

The supporters of these views feel that the Afrikaner designation ( or label ) was used from the 1930s onwards as a means of unifying ( politically at least ) the white Afrikaans speakers of the Western Cape with those of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent ( whose ancestors began migrating eastward during the late 17th century and throughout the 18th century and later northward during the Great Trek of the 1830s ) in the north of South Africa, where the Boer Republics were established.

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.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.

In some cases, as in the Xhosa / Boer Wars, Boers were removed from Xhosa lands.

The regiment was deployed during the Second Boer War from the outset playing a key role in the first battle at Talana Hill.

The hill was the site of the Battle of Spion Kop in the Second Boer War, where over 300 men of the Lancashire Regiment died, many of them from Liverpool.

De Krisgsgevangenewas, a censored Dutch newspaper, was published for Boer prisoners from 1901.

The ZAR was established in 1852, and was independent from 1856 to 1877, then again from the end of the First Boer War in 1881, in which the Boers regained their independence from the British Empire, until 1900.

Lizzie van Zyl was a child inmate in a British-run concentration camp in South Africa who died from typhoid fever during the Second Boer War | Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ).

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.

** Second Boer War: British military leaders accept the unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje.

For instance, the residents of Camp Skagway Number One included: William Howard Taft, who went on to become a U. S. President ; Frederick Russell Burnham, the celebrated American scout who arrived from Africa only to be called back to take part in the Second Boer War ; and W. W. White, author and explorer.

The New York Times reported an attempted mutiny by Boer Prisoners of War en route to Bermuda and that martial law was enacted on Darryll's Island, in addition to the escape of three Boer Prisoners of War to mainland Bermuda as well as an escape by a young Boer soldier from Bermuda to New York on the steamship Trinidad.