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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer General C.J. Spruyt is killed in action while attempting to cross the railway line between Val Station a
Anglo-Boer War 2: The youngest Boer commandant, 19 year old Commandant Piet van der Merwe and twenty-three burgers are killed i
Anglo-Boer War 2: The youngest Boer commandant, 19 year old Commandant Piet van der Merwe and twenty-three burgers are killed i
Anglo-Boer War 2: After 216 days Boer forces abandon the siege of Mafeking and Colonel Mahon’s relief column enters the town.
Encyclopedia of the Boer War by Martin F. Marix Evans
Anglo-Boer War 2: units under Gen. Hunter occupy Lichtenburg.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Britain annexes the ZAR (Transvaal Republic).
Anglo-Boer War 2: The battle of Koedoesberg is fought.
BiographyStephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
Paul Kruger is believed to have been born on 10 October 1825 on his grandfather's farm, Bulhoek, in the Cradock district, near the present day town of…
Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Bothaville or Doornkraal is fought with Gen. De Wet surrendering
Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Bothaville or Doornkraal is fought with Gen. De Wet surrendering, after heavy losses on both sides. SA National Museum of…
BiographyLord Kitchener
Best known for his famous recruitment posters bearing his heavily moustachioed face and pointing hand over the legend, "Your country needs you", as secretary…
EventEmily Hobhouse reports on her findings regarding concentration camps during the Second Anglo Boer War
Emily Hobhouse, an English philanthropist and social worker who visited the Transvaal and Orange Free State Republics during the Second Anglo Boer War,…
EventThe 104mm field-gun known as ‘Long Cecil’ is test fired for the first time
… Station, causing considerable alarm and dismay to the Boers. 'Long Cecil' did more firing whilst in service than …
Anglo-Boer War 2: At least fifty-three British soldiers die, 130 are wounded and 500 captured in a surprise attack by Boer tr
Anglo-Boer War 2: The war between the British Empire and the two Boer republics, the Transvaal and Orange Free State, breaks ou
Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer snipers suddenly open fire on the massed troops of the Canadians of Strathcona’s Horse, the first to ent
Anglo-Boer War 2: USA President McKinley says he will not intervene in the war in South Africa despite direct requests by Boer
Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators, Generals Botha, De Wet, De la Rey, Smuts and Hertzog attend peace talks in Pretoria with Lo
Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators, Generals Botha, De Wet, De la Rey, Smuts and Hertzog attend peace talks in Pretoria with Lo
BiographySolomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was born on 9 October 1876 in the Boshof district of the Orange Free State. His parents were Christians who belonged to the Setswana…
De Beers Mining Company announces the manufacture of synthetic industrial diamonds.
BiographyEugène Ney Terre’Blanche
Eugene Ney Terre'Blanche was born in Ventersdorp to staunchly Afrikaner nationalist parents on January 31, 1944. The progenitor of the Terre'Blanche name was…
BiographyEdward Arthur Roworth
Edward Roworth was a British born South African artist. Roworth came to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of…
EventBoer statesman, soldier and first president of the South African (Transvaal) Republic, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius dies
Boer statesman, soldier and first president of the South African (Transvaal) Republic, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, died at his home in Potchefstroom at the age…