The South African Boer War

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 did the war come about? How did the Boers achieve initial success? Why did the British set up concentration camps? Rob Weinberg asks the big questions about this complex conflict to Dr Stephen Badsey, Professor of Conflict Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The South African Boer War is an episode from How and Why History.

This episode is 31:08 long.

This episode was published on Sep 25, 2020.

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