Boer commando - Wikipedia
The Boer Commandos or "Kommandos" were volunteer military units of guerrilla militia organized by the Boer people of South Africa. From this came the term "commando" into the English language during the Second Boer War of 1899–1902 as per Costica Andrew.
Boers - Wikipedia
Boers (/ bʊərz / BOORZ; Afrikaans: Boere; [ˈbuːrə]) are the descendants of the proto Afrikaans -speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier [2] in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
Second Boer War concentration camps - Wikipedia
During the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), the British operated concentration camps in the South African Republic, Orange Free State, Natal, and the Cape Colony. In February 1900, Herbert Kitchener took command of the British forces and implemented some controversial tactics that contributed to a British victory. [3]
Concentration Camps: Boers' own invention? - News24
2000年10月19日 · For many Afrikaners the Anglo-Boer War's revolves around two words - Concentration camps. But there is an uncomfortable secret they seldom confront: The very real possibility that the Boers themselves invented the concentration camps, or at least created the conditions and customs that made them possible.
South Africa - Boer Consolidation, Union, Apartheid | Britannica
4 天之前 · South Africa - Boer Consolidation, Union, Apartheid: Faced with these unprofitable conflicts, the British temporarily withdrew from the southern African interior, and the Transvaal and Orange Free State Boers gained independence through the Sand River and Bloemfontein conventions (1852 and 1854, respectively).
Boer forces - Anglo Boer War
The origins of the Boer military structure called the commando go back to the 18th Century. At this time, the Boers needed to be able to raise an army to defend themselves against, attack the local tribesmen or take part in the frequent military skirmishes of the time.
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black ...
2017年10月10日 · The Boer’s boldly fighting against the odds against a British Imperialist invasion and then having to endure the indignity of a systematic eradication of the Boer nation and culture by means of a punitive genocide initiated by what some now regard as a Nazi styled system of British ‘concentration camps’ which murdered their women and ...
Anglo-Boer War: how a bloody conflict 125 years ago still shapes …
2024年10月10日 · THE 125th anniversary of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 is marked on 11 October 2024. 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) affected all cultural groups in the war zone.
South African 'Boer' War - New Zealand History
The term Boer, derived from the Afrikaans word for farmer, was used to describe the people in southern Africa who traced their ancestry to Dutch, German and French Huguenot settlers who arrived in the Cape of Good Hope from 1652.
Full article: A Historical Overview of Boer Guerrilla and British ...
2022年10月28日 · The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the Boer guerrilla and British counterinsurgency operations, including events in the Cape Colony, where the conflict had grave implications for the local white, brown and black inhabitants, who were caught up between the British and Boer forces, and where in certain areas of the war zone ...