The war often called the “Boer War” is the Second Boer War. The first Boer war 1880–1881, was a relatively brief and small-scale conflict. This video is about the second Boer war 1899-1902 which was the first major international conflict of the twentieth century. It was fought between the British empire and the two independent Boer republics of the orange free state and the south African Republic (Transvaal Republic). After a hard-fought war, the two independent republics lost and were absorbed into the British Empire. The first year of the war was mainly a conventional war unfortunately as always seems to be the case the British army was fighting with the last wars tactics. But this time they were up against an enemy with the best weapons that money could buy, better tactics and they were excellent shots. Were as the British army was still relying on mass manoeuvring, frontal assaults and volley fire with disastrous results. Eventually they changed they tactics and won the conventional war then came a long period of guerrilla warfare which the British finally won through the use of “scorched earth” tactics, including the use of concentration camps, however these were not places of forced labour, systematic abuse and mass murder as they would become under the Nazis although conditions in the British run camps were severely criticized. The deaths in the camps were mainly coursed by disease through the unsanitary conditions due to the incompetence and stupidity of the people running them rather than malice. Unfortunately the army did not treat its troops any better of the 22,000 British soldiers who died 7,792 were battle casualties, the rest were through disease.
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Your Queen is irrelevant you fuckface. She and her ugly son is a embarresment for the whole “British Empire”. The British are worse than the Nazi’s.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!!
The thing about your comment is that you fail to notice the inherent supreme irony of castigating the Boers over their HUMBLE claims while glorifying the British whose empire covered so much of the world due to their Colonial & rapacious attitude which often resulted in the overthrow of the various local societies the encountered. The fact that the British were fighting for the land dispels the erroneous notion that the land was crap.
Iceborn21
The Australians were BRITISH!DAAAA
if it is such a crappy place why then did the british fought 2 wars over it and had there but’s kicked! i am not going to get into a fruitless argument with you, just go to wikipedia and read about it!
Hey pote613 Did the Boers have an empire that covered a quarter of the world?Or did they have there own tiny little crap country in some little crap land!Just shows how powerful the British empire really is and was compared to your little crap boers!
that is rich coming from someone who can’t even spell!!! D O E S N ‘ T
no wonder brittain is ruled by one of it’s former colonies! the usa!
To all you TURDS calling people cowards, I say one thing. Deneys Reitz and Jan Smuts were able to bury the hatchet and not resort to idiotic name calling. The Boers and the Imperial troops and her Colonies fought with courage and valour. You want to call Kitchener or Milner monsters…go ahead. Leave the individual soldiers or their efforts which you contributed nothing out of your slandering pathetic dialogue.
Oh and at 5:09 those are troops from a Coy. of Royal Canadian Regiment frm Toronto
I read in a diary from a Boer commander. That the Australian soldiers were so much more effective then the british.
Hey you anti BRITISH people shut up!!! Just cause the boers got their butts kicked by the greatest empire in the world dosen’t mean you have to get all sad about it. boers are crap!!!
Of the 334,000 men volunteered for full time service in the South African Army during the war 9,000 were killed in action.
Another important victory that the South African’s participated in was the liberation of Malagasy (now known as Madagascar) from the control of the Vichy French who were allies of the Nazis.
The South African Army and Air Force helped defeat the Italian army of the Fascist Benito Mussolini that had invaded Abyssinia (now known as Ethiopia) in 1935. During the 1941 East African Campaign South African forces made important contribution to this early Allied victory.
most costly???
what about ww1 or ww2?
THIS WAS THE MOST COSTLY WAR THE BRITISH WERE EVER INVOLVED WITH, THE BOERS KICKED ASS, THE ONLY WAY THE ENGLISH COULD WIN WAS WITH THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS!!! Talk about being Cowards!!!!!!
COWARDS!! the only way the british could conquer them was by putting there woman and children in consentration camps and murdering them! 35000 boer women and children died in BRITISH concentration camps! 82 000 boers held out against almost 400 000 british soldiers.
i stil have many mamentos that were removed from dead boers by my great grandfather.he used tell me of his time in the war.he hated the boers,said they were cowards. i have to agree with him, after way they just handed power over to the negros
the music fitts the pictures very good material
thanks will check it out as my sister has his discharge papers. i know he done seven years with the rangers.
Could it be during during WW1 he was shot in Palestine as we were fighting the Ottoman empire at that point.
my grand father fought with the connaught rangers and was shot needing hospital treatment in palistine. can anyone tell me why palistine? he also fought in WW1.
yes this is very good stuff,.well done thanks
nice side info
very nicely done
Very rare footage & images, thanks for putting this up,