The term Boer, derived from the Afrikaans word for farmer, was used to describe the people in southern Africa who traced their ancestry to Dutch, German and French Huguenot settlers who arrived in the Cape of Good Hope from 1652.

In 1899, in the second and main Boer War, just 65,000 Boer take on half a million British soldiers. By 1900, the British Major General, Herbert Kitchener (later infamous for his First World War strategy) had largely secured territorial control of Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and Pretoria. In response, the Boers engage in guerrilla warfare.

1914-10-13 Pro-German Boers begin opposition to British authority in South Africa; 1914-12-08 Boers rebelling against the British in South Africa suffer several defeats, with one of their leaders, General Beyers, accidentally drowning

29/03/2011 · Boer soldiers at Ladysmith, South Africa, circa 1899 © Initially, the Transvaal Boers adopted a policy of passive resistance. When the British government made its …

05/10/2017 · The early history of the Boers is contemporaneous with that of the progress of white man’s civilization at the Cape of Good Hope. The two are interwoven to such an extent and for so long a time that it is well-nigh impossible to separate them.

09/02/2010 · In 1833, the Boers began an exodus into African tribal territory, where they founded the republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.

23/08/2018 · This is the brief history of the Boers. Something never really covered by anybody. The the word Boer is mispronounced, we sort of recorded it using Siri and ...

05/12/2021 · Why Was It Called The Boer War? The war of 1899-1902 is generally referred to as the South African War, since it acknowledged that all South Africans, white and black, were affected by the war, and that many were involved. ‘Boers’ is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmers, which was acquired by the republicans.

Boer, (Dutch: “husbandman,” or “farmer”), a South African of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent, especially one of the early settlers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Today, descendants of the Boers are commonly referred to as Afrikaners. In 1652 the Dutch East India Company charged Jan