I'll give more stars IF you answer with your own words.
2007-05-02 05:03:08 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
You are partially correct, the British won the Second Boer war, but I meant the first one, sorry about the confusion.
2007-05-02 05:18:20 · update #1
These are my own words, not wikipedia - The British won.
The Boers, surrendering when they did (May 31, 1902) and as they did,were a greater asset to the British Empire than they would have been if they had surrendered two years earlier.
2007-05-02 05:09:16 · answer #1 · answered by WMD 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
J.S. is correct. The British won the Boer War. The Dutch Afrikaners who eventually formed the apartheid government rose to power through election.
2007-05-02 13:45:32 · answer #2 · answered by carlos705 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
My own thoughts:
1. They probably under estimated the determination of the boer settlers. They rationalized (very wrongly apparently) that these were farmers with pick-axes and therefore easy to beat.
2. The boers employed guerilla warfare which was alien to the formal British style of fighting.
3. This was at the height of the scramble for Africa and the Brits were already involved in other skirmished in the region. As such, resources were probably stretched thin.
2007-05-02 13:39:39 · answer #3 · answered by boston857 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because they are the British!!
2007-05-02 12:57:26 · answer #4 · answered by Steve 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋