3802 Colenso: Ireland's Forgotten Sacrifice in the Boer War

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Nov 23, 202535:42Society & Culture

Yet another war believed to be over by Christmas. The Second Boer War was fought between the greatest empire the world had ever seen and a nation of farmers with a population fewer than that of Brighton, England. It took...

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