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.

To the long-memoried Afrikaners who back Prime Minister Daniel Malan, that war ... “First President of the coming South African Republic.” His program seems to call for a stratified New Boer ...

Military and political leaders took a lesson from the Boer War, and made soldiers in the First World War sign up for the duration of the war and six months of occupation, he says. It was easy to ...

The most obvious is, of course, the drone – cheap and highly effective, provided its signals don’t get jammed. But there are others, including the kinds of cyberattacks on companies and national ...

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 ...

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.

Private Walter Parker has been identified as the first-known Indigenous soldier to ... to the list of Indigenous men who served in the Boer War Director of the Memorial, Matt Anderson, says ...

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 ...