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The Second Boer War (Afrikaans: Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, lit. ' Second Freedom War ', 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Transvaal War [8], Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.
The R66 joins the R618 and they form one road south-east into the town of Nongoma before splitting adjacent to the Nongoma Police Station, where the R66 becomes its own road southwards. The R66 continues southwards for 74 kilometres as the King Dinizulu Highway, crossing the Black Umfolozi River , passing through the city of Ulundi and crossing ...
Second Boer War concentration camps. During the Second Anglo-Boer War which lasted from 1899–1902, the British operated concentration camps in the South Africa Republic, Orange Free State, Natal and the Cape Colony. In February of 1900, Herbert Kitchener took command of the British forces and implemented some of the controversial tactics that ...
Battle. Before dawn on 20 October, Erasmus' force occupied Impati Mountain north of Dundee at 28°6′49″S 30°12′18″E. Meyer's men occupied the low Talana Hill east of the town at 28°9′50″S 30°16′4″E, and dragged several German manufactured Krupp field guns to the top. As dawn broke and the British spotted the Boers on Talana ...
Jews were among the first to take to ostrich-farming and played a role in the early diamond industry. Jews also played some part in early South African politics. Captain Joshua Norden was shot at the head of his Mounted Burghers in the Xhosa War of 1846; Lieutenant Elias de Pass fought in the Xhosa War of 1849.
The Boer forces retreated to the east by the time the capital of the South African Republic (Transvaal), Pretoria, was captured by British forces on 5 June 1900.British Commander-in-Chief in South Africa Field Marshal Lord Roberts had predicted a Boer surrender upon the loss of their capital, but when this was not fulfilled, he began an attack to the east in order to push Boer forces away from ...
The Orange Free State (Dutch: Oranje Vrijstaat; [a] Afrikaans: Oranje-Vrystaat [b]) was an independent Boer sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeated and surrendered to the British Empire at the end of the Second Boer War in 1902.
The conflict ended almost as soon as it began with a decisive Boer victory at Battle of Majuba Hill (27 February 1881). The republic regained its independence as the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek ("South African Republic"), or ZAR. Paul Kruger, one of the leaders of the uprising, became President of the ZAR in 1883.