South African War: Facts & Related Content
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Also Known As | Second War of Independence • Anglo-Boer War • Second Boer War • Boer War |
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Date | October 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
Location | South Africa |
Participants | Orange Free State • South African Republic • United Kingdom |
Context | British Empire • Western colonialism |
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- Britain won the previously Dutch colony in the Napoleonic Wars.
- The Boers originally resented Britain's 1806 takeover due to its implementation of anti-slavery laws and its Anglicizing influence.
- The unearthing of gold and diamonds in South Africa in 1867 fueled the conflict between the British and the Boers.
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Jan Smuts
South African statesman

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
prime minister of United Kingdom

Paul Kruger
South African statesman

Joseph Chamberlain
British politician and social reformer

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
British field marshal

Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner
British diplomat

Louis Botha
prime minister of Union of South Africa

J.B.M. Hertzog
prime minister of South Africa

Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
British field marshal

John French, 1st earl of Ypres
British field marshal

Petrus Jacobus Joubert
South African politician

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
British army officer

Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
Boer statesman

Jacobus Hercules de la Rey
Boer leader

Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
British field marshal

Marthinus Theunis Steyn
president of Orange Free State

Pieter Arnoldus Cronjé
Boer general

C.F. Beyers
South African politician

Emily Hobhouse
British social worker

Sir John Greer Dill
British field marshal
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