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Also known as the South African War or the Second Boer War, the brutal conflict between the colonising forces of the British and the Boers (originally Dutch settlers, today known as Afrikaners ...

The British Empire claimed this an outrage and went to war with the Boer republics. Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War. Credit: Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]. The Boers, mainly ...

A 2018 video shows the typical clothing worn by British troops in World War I to protect them from ... on any battlefield in a scratchy wool uniform, wearing such an outfit in the cold, wet ...

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 ...