WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Between 1899 and 1902, the British Army fought a bitter colonial war against the Boers in South Africa. Although outnumbered, the Boers were a skilled and determined enemy. After initial setbacks and a long period of guerrilla warfare, the British eventually prevailed, but not without adopting controversial tactics.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the war the Netherlands was largely pro-Boer, and some 2000 Dutch volunteers traveled to South Africa to fight for the two Boer republics.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Boer Wars were fought between British and Dutch settlers of the South African Transvaal. The Dutch were known as “Boers” from the word for “farmer.” Their ancestors had settled in the Cape area from the 1650s onwards.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Treaty of Vereeniging ended the Second Anglo-Boer War and laid the basis for South Africa’s Afrikaners to continue to participate in, and eventually to dominate, South Africa for much of the twentieth century.