What was the Boer war all about???

Answer 1

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Answer 2

There were two Boer Wars:

the First Boer War (1880–1881)
the Second Boer War (1899–1902).
Both were between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic), founded by settlers known as Voortrekkers who made the Great Trek from the Cape Colony and were primarily of Dutch, French and German origin. These settlers were often called Boers and were mainly the descendants of generations of Afrikaners who were living in the eastern Cape frontier.

The war often called simply the "Boer War" is the Second Boer War

Answer 3

"The Boer Wars was the name given to the South African Wars of 1880-1 and 1899-1902, that were fought between the British and the descendants of the Dutch settlers (Boers) in Africa. After the first Boer War William Gladstone granted the Boers self-government in the Transvaal".

Check this site out for more info:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WARboer.htm

Answer 4

The war was between the Boers, who didn't want to be part of the then British Colonies, and obviously the British. I would not classify the Boers as purely Dutch, as they were also largely descendants from other European countries like France and Germany.

Answer 5

I have to agree with Marrs attack. The british empire were the first modern nation to implement the use of concentration camps. (Funny how they condemned the Germans for using what was their own strategies!) When the Mighty British Army found that they were been beat by a handful of farmers, they resorted to their "scorched earth" policy, which meant that they burnt all the farms they came accross and imprisoned all the women and children and even the native africans who worked on the farms.

The concentration camps were atrocious. The main one was on St Helena island. This camp also became a R&R Destination for officers in the British Army, they would go there and have their way with the women prisoners. This was the norm for the british soldiers, it was even encouraged by the seniors, unofficially of course.

The boer war is not dissimilar to the war in Iraq, the British, along with the USA want what is beneath the soil. Gold in South Africa and oil in Iraq. What happens to the people of those countries does not matter.

"27,927 Boers (of whom 22,074 were children under 16) and 14,154 black Africans had died of starvation, disease and exposure in the concentration camps." 6000-7000 Boer soldiers were killed by the end of the war. This war is a black mark on the history of Britain. Imagine killing the families of soldiers fighting a war, that is what the british did. It had the desired effect, the Boers surrendered, not because they could no longer fight, but to spare their families.

Answer 6

It was a fight for independence that was crushed by the British. The war was becoming protracted by the actions of the Boer Kommandos (where the British Commando idea comes from) and as a result the British forces decided to attack the Boer civilians first, which resulted in the creation of the first concentration camps, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of people.

Answer 7

The Boers had got diamonds and the English wanted them.

Answer 8

gold was discovered in the transvaal,an independent boer republic.the british grew envious and decided that they wanted the gold for themselves.they attacked the south african republic and got the hidding of their lives.but since this was the british empire,they imported troops from australia,new zealand,canada and india.they built up an army of 450 000 empire troops to fight a mere 80 000 boers.still the empire suffered defeat after humiliating defeat by small scattered group of boers(and some brave irish sympathises) until the cowardly english bastards got pissed off and decided to take their anger out on defenceless boer women and children and native africans.the english took as many boer civillians and native africans as they could get their hands on and through them into concentration camps where they died by the thousands.the boer fighting men became so dispirited by the whole thing that they surrended to save their women and children.28 000 empire troops,6 500 boer troops,30 000 boer women and children and 20 000 native africans(from the camps) had to die because the greedy empire wanted gold.after the war the british government was so scared at what the backlash would be from their "scorched earth" policies in south africa, that they genourously paid the boers out to the tune of 3 000 000 pounds( alot of money 100 years ago) for the reconstruction of the country side that they so ruthlessly destroyed in their pursued of victory.the boer government was given virtual self government but all importantly the british were in control of the precious gold mines.so many people had to die because of greed and egotistical english empire builders sitting high and mighty in their pomp and pageantry.what a bunch of ******* they are.
many thanks to all the brave irish fighters who stood by the boers against english aggression.

Answer 9

Gold and diamonds. The British fought for what was under it, the Boers for the land itself. Not much has changed when you look at Iraq.

Answer 10

Please see "1066 and all that" by Sellers and Yeatman which, (in,I think, chapter 10) gives a concise (if not entirely accurate) description of the causes of, history leading up to, and course of, the Boer (or Bore) War (1899- 1902).

Answer 11

Not tellin ya-cannot tolerate people who take short cuts in history exams-only way to learn is to read the textbooks.
Tell ya what it wasn't as exciting as Michael Caine made it look in Zulu-it was quite boering-lol