The Anglo Boer War Respectively The South African War An Overview
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| Author | : Claudia Oldiges |
| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 25 |
| Release | : 2009-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3640330706 |
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject History - Africa, grade: 1,3, University of Osnabrück, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Boer Wars at the dawn of the century highly influenced not only South African history, especially in terms of the development of the apartheid system, but it additionally changed the possibilities of warfare. These conflicts between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal (South African Republic) took place from 1880 to 1881 and 1899 to 1902. Even though formally there have been two wars in a short period of time, one usually focuses on the Second Boer War, also known as the South African War, Anglo-Boereoorlog (Anglo-Boer War), Tweede Vryheidsoorlog (Second Freedom War) or "Tea-Time War". This paper will mainly concentrate on the South African War, even though background information will be provided. Historians ought not to ask "What if...?", since they have to focus on facts. But ignoring this guideline for a moment, fascinating questions arise: "What if the large deposits of gold and diamonds in the Transvaal were not found in the 1870s and 1880s? Would the British have fought for the rights of the uitlanders nevertheless?" These are two of the questions which will be dealt with (in 2.1) when reasoning the origins / causes of the war. Following, the paper will bring together the facts and some unusual features of the South African War. Its center of attention will be the Guerilla War starting of in September 1900 and lasting till the Treaty of Vereeniging in May 1902, the end of the War.
| Author | : Simon Green (C.) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781928455561 |
| Author | : D. Omissi |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2016-01-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0230598293 |
This exciting new book marks a major shift in the study of the South African War. It turns attention from the war's much debated causes onto its more neglected consequences. An international team of scholars explores the myriad legacies of the war - for South Africa, for Britain, for the Empire and beyond. The extensive introduction sets the contributions in context, and the elegant afterword offers thought-provoking reflections on their cumulative significance.
| Author | : Byron Farwell |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 920 |
| Release | : 2009-09-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1783830611 |
The story of the battle for independence from the British Empire in South Africa by “a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars” (Kirkus Reviews). The Great Boer War (1899-1902), more properly known as the Great Anglo-Boer War, was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats of personal heroism, unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humor and tragedy. Byron Farwell traces the war’s origins; the slow mounting of the British efforts to overthrow the Afrikaners; the bungling and bickering of the British command; the remarkable series of bloody battles that almost consistently ended in victory for the Boers over the much more numerous British forces; political developments in London and Pretoria; the sieges of Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberley; the concentration camps into which Boer families were herded; and the exhausting guerrilla warfare of the last few years when the Boer armies were finally driven from the field. The Great Boer War is a definitive history of a dramatic conflict by the author of Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, “a leading popular military historian” (Publishers Weekly).
| Author | : Edward Spiers |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780719061219 |
This book re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period 1874-1902. It uses using a range of sources, such as letters and diaries, to allow soldiers to 'speak form themselves' about their experience of colonial.
| Author | : Sarah LeFanu |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0197501443 |
A thoughtful biography tracing the paths of three literary greats through a turbulent period in Britain's imperial history.
| Author | : L. Scholtz |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2004-05-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 023051331X |
Why did the British win the Anglo-Boer War? Although there is truth in the simple statement that they were much stronger than the Boers, it does not explain everything. Therefore, the main focus of this book is to analyse the most important strategic and operational decisions made on both sides, and to measure them according to accepted modern military theory. It is shown that both the British and Boer war efforts were very haphazard at the beginning, but that both learnt as the war went on. In the end, the British got the Boers in a vice from which they could not escape.
| Author | : Thomas Pakenham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : South African War, 1899-1902 |
| ISBN | : 9781841880143 |
Originally published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1979, an illustrated narrative of the Boer War, written by the author of SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
| Author | : Ben J. Viljoen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 586 |
| Release | : 1902 |
| Genre | : South African War, 1899-1902 |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Elizabeth van Heyningen |
| Publisher | : Jacana Media |
| Total Pages | : 670 |
| Release | : 2013-09-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1431405442 |
This is the first general history of the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer or South African War in over fifty years, and the first to use in depth the very rich and extensive official documents in South African and British archives. It provides a fresh perspective on a topic that has understandably aroused huge emotions because of the great numbers of Afrikaners, especially women and children, who died in the camps. This fascinating social history overturns many of the previously held assumptions and conclusions on all sides, and is sure to stimulate debate. Rather than viewing the camps simply as the product of the scorched-earth policies of the war, the author sets them in the larger context of colonialism at the end of the 19th century, arguing that British views on poverty, poor relief and the management of colonial societies all shaped their administration. The book also attempts to explain why the camps were so badly administered in the first place, and why reform was so slow, suggesting that divided responsibility, ignorance, political opportunism and a failure to understand the needs of such institutions all played their part.
