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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Lord Roberts departs from Bloemfontein and begins the ‘March to Pretoria’ with almost 44,000 men, 18,
Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres
Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres
Anglo-Boer War 2: General Jan Christiaan Smuts surrenders to the British under a flag of truce. Deneys Reitz who agrees to act
Anglo-Boer War 2: General Jan Christiaan Smuts surrenders to the British under a flag of truce. Deneys Reitz who agrees to act
Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people
Anglo-Boer War 2: In one of the most savage incidents Col. Baden-Powell ‘persuades’ almost 700 Barolong women and children to
Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. P.A. Cronje and his wife, with Colonel Adorf Schiel and about 1 000 Republican prisoners of war, sails f
The Women’s Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein, to commemorate 26 251 women and children who died during Anglo-Boer War 2, ma
Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under General Redvers Buller make a frontal attack in the Battle of Colenso aimed at relieving th
Anglo-Boer War 2: The second British offensive begins with a British invasion of the Orange Free State when almost 50,000 men a
Anglo-Boer War 2: In the Battle of Tabanyama, Natal front, a group of Indian stretcher bearers, among whom the young Durban att
Gen. Petrus Jacobus Joubert, politician and Commander-in-Chief of the forces of the Transvaal during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born
Anglo-Boer War 2: Mafeking siege: Gen. J.P. Snyman sends a starving group of Black women, who have been encouraged by the Briti
Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Redvers Buller conquers Vaalkrans at the Tugela river, but shelling from both sides continues and the Br
Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Frederick S. Roberts arrives at the Cape, replacing Sir Redvers Buller as commander-in-chief of the Brit
Lord Robert Baden-Powell, British general during the siege of Mafeking during Anglo-Boer War 2 and founder of the Boy Scouts, d
The Boer generals report back in Pretoria after a campaign in Europe to procure aid for the reconstruction of the country after
The Battle of Wagon Hill (Platrand), south of Ladysmith, takes place, in which the Boer forces make an unsuccessful attempt to
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… and sheep to the Dutch and their Khoikhoi allies. The boers then settled on their land. Wheat and grapes for wine … Mozambique and Indonesia to work the land…
EventBasutoland (now Lesotho) becomes British territory
… In 1867 and 1868, most of Moshoeshoe's land was overrun by Boers from the Orange Free State. He appealed to the British … area west of the Caledon River,…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
1800s 1850 The Natal Legislative Council passes Law 14 of 1859 allowing the Government to import labour from India. 1860 16 November, The first batch of…
BiographyHenry Burton
Early Life Henry Burton was born on 2 June 1866 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and went to school at St Andrews in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. He…
PlaceKimberley, Northern Cape
… display, and the battlefield site of Magersfontein where Boers used trench warfare for the first time. The city … which was fought between the British and…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… in 1854. 1858 Moshoeshoe fights a series of wars with the Boers. 1868 Basutoland is annexed by the British, and becomes a British protectorate. 1869 The…
BiographyDr. Leander Starr Jameson
Leander Starr Jameson was the son of Robert William Jameson and Christian Pringle. After his parents moved to London, he went to school at Goldolphin in…
PlaceBritish Bechuanaland
… south-east of Mafeking. On 6 August 1883 a second group of Boers established the Republic of Stellaland to the south of …