The South African Boer War

How and Why History

Sep 25, 202031:08Society & Culture

From 1899 to 1902, a bloody war was fought between the British Empire and two independent Boer states – the Republic of Transvaal and the Orange Free State – over the Empire's influence in South Africa. But how and why d...

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