The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war, the British army experienced great difficulty in finding fit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The recent Boer War, it was generally agreed ... Indeed, the Army had been forced to turn away up to 60 per cent of would-be recruits because they were in such poor physical condition.

Vladimir Putin is facing "significant" military challenges that could seriously compromise Russia's ability to wage its war in Ukraine ... poor quality of its new recruits".