The Boer War had provoked British war minister Richard Haldane, to create the (BEF) or the ‘British Expeditionary Force’, in case it was necessary to take part in a foreign war. #SimpleHistory ...

Carton de Wiart left Oxford’s hallowed halls to enlist in the British military and fight in the Boer War in South Africa. He so desperately wanted to fight on the front lines that he signed up ...

Emily Hobhouse revealed the truth about Britain’s brutal treatment of Boer civilians during the South African War. She was ...

Cook Government acknowledges May 31 as Boer War DayThe Boer War is the only war Western Australia, as a separate entity, was represented by the ...

At the turn of the 20 th century, the Boer War held all the promise of noble and heroic adventure for thousands of young Canadian men. And for the nation it was an opportunity to show the world ...

LONDON, Aug. 29. -- The evidence given before the Royal Commission on the South African war was issued yesterday in the form of three bluebooks containing over 1,700 pages. View Full Article in ...

EXPERTS have been working hard to restore a memorial dedicated to a Scottish army regiment as part of North Bridge’s ...

During the summer of 1899, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell of the British Army found himself in a pickle ... When the Second Boer War erupted in October, the colonel and his 500 troops found ...

The Second Boer War stemmed from a century of ... to “concentration camps”. “British concentration camps were instruments of military coercion and humanitarian care that drew from existing ...