A compromise was reached and Canada agreed to send volunteers to serve under British command in the Boer War. It represented the first large group of Canadian soldiers to serve overseas.

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 ...

What led to the Anglo-Boer War? The first Europeans to settle in what is today South Africa were the Dutch in 1652. In 1795 and again in 1806, the British took over control of the Cape Colony.

At the turn of the 20th century, Adrian Carton de Wiart was struggling academically. While considering whether to continue pursuing a law degree at the University of Oxford, he desperately sought ...

He set forth, in the first place, that, at the end of the session of 1899, the Government had assured the House of Commons that there was little danger of war, and that at the end of the session ...