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 ...

(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press) The Conservative government was warned in advance by bureaucrats that its 110th anniversary commemoration of the Boer War celebrated a "sensitive" conflict.

Britain thought the war would be a cakewalk. It wasn’t. As described in Gregory Fremont-Barne’s The Boer War, Boer guerrilla warfare challenged the Brits’ formal military style. The British ...

A comprehensive database containing the records of more than 55,000 British soldiers killed, captured or wounded in the Second Boer War has gone online. Between 1899-1902, Dutch-speaking settlers ...

The Second Boer War began in 1899 in the south of Africa. It was fought between the two Boer Republics and the British Empire. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to ...

For the Boer War, as it used to be called, came after the New Zealand Wars and not long before the Great War, both of which cast long and deep shadows over the period. Nor did the South African ...

The Anglo-Boer War battle took place during the Boer siege of Kimberley, a strategic diamond mining town. A British relief column advanced along the Cape railway line and in three earlier clashes ...

A comprehensive database containing the records of more than 55,000 British soldiers killed, captured or wounded in the Second Boer War has gone online. Between 1899-1902, Dutch-speaking settlers ...