The Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)
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- From 1899 to 1902 a war between Farmers, commonly known as Boers, and soldiers of the British Empire waged over South Africa. The British (also known as the Kaki’s) fought unsuccessfully against the Boer snipers and militias. The Great British Empire needed 3 years to defeat an army that was smaller in size than the population of Brighton. To make matters even worse for the British, the initial phase of the war, saw Boer militias claiming success after success, resulting in some serious doubt and embarrassment among the British.
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Time Codes:
0:49 Historical Background
4:09 Three Phases of War
7:35 The British Counter-offensive
10:47 "Guerilla" Warfare
15:54 Boer Insurrection
18:19 British Concentration Camps
20:45 Nearing the end
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Nasson, B., Penn, N., & Town, C. T. (2011). The War for South Africa.
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Pakenham, T. (2015). The Boer War. Hachette UK.
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The Boer war is also one of my favourites in worlds history.
It is too pity that there are so few books about it.
Thank you very much.
Read With the Flag to Pretoria
I have the full set, brain overload with the amount of info in those books
Listen to Anglo Boer war podcast on soundloud also. The war week by week.
There are a lot of Books on the Subject. Look on Amazon
The Petticoat Commando is an excellent audiobook that tells the story of the Boer War from the perspective of two Boer women who lived in Johannesburg and passed secret notes, obtained supplies for, and sheltered Boer fighters. czcams.com/video/HWnSLP5waJA/video.html
Read Arthur Conan Doyle's " The Great Boer War", he had first hand experience, having been a doctor with the British Army. From the Boer perspective try to get Deneys Reitz' "Commando". There is also Pieter G. Cloete's "THE ANGLO BOER WAR A CHRONOLOGY". For concentration camp material, google "Lizzie Van Zyl" on the internet, there are some written and photograph material, it is rather upsetting though. My great grandmother, a young French lady Marguerite du Toit -Ellerman died in the Irene concentration camp. There is some material concerning my grandfather, Hendrik Lodewyk Ellerman. He had the French king Henry Louis' names.
*At **0:47** I mention Boers migrated to South Africa in 1830. This is wrong.* During the 1830s the Boers migrated inland from Cape Colony, in what became known as the "Grote Trek". Eventually, this led to the creation of Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The Dutch Cape Colony was established in 1652 and had been overtaken by the British Empire in 1806. For some reason, I used an older version of my script in which this mistake is not corrected.
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*Time Codes*
0:49 Historical Background
4:09 Three Phases of War
7:35 The British Counter-offensive
10:47 "Guerilla" Warfare
15:54 Boer Insurrection
18:19 British Concentration Camps
20:45 Nearing the end
I was waiting. Bravo mate !!!
my stamvader het as 'n jong man van 18 jaar sy ouerhuis verlaat en na Amsterdam geloop om daar by die Hollandse Oos-Indiese Kompanjie aan te sluit. In 1767 het hy as soldaat met die skip "Overnes" by die Kaap aangekom.Omdat dit 'n tyd van vrede was is hy soos baie ander soldate as kneg deur die Kompanjie aan boere uitgehuur. In Oktober 1776 het hy sy ontslag gekry, burgerregte gekry, en enkele weke daarna, op 3 November 1776, met die 24 jarige Maria van der Wat getrou. Op 10 Maart 1783 het hy die weidingsregte van die plaas "De Moordkuyl" gekry.Volgens die “Kaapse Argiefstukken” is hy op 8 Julie 1783 aangestel as 'n "Wagtmeester"vir een van die distrikte in die Landdrosdistrik van Swellendam; vermoedelik in die distrik waar sy plaas was. Dit is so interesant as jy enige nog informasie oor die name het / of plekke sal dit awesome wees. dankie die video baie geniet!
What did the boers want to do if they won the war?
When I was in school, a Canadian veteran of the Boer War came to speak to us. I can't remember what he said but I will never forget him being there. Later I would become a member of the Canadian Army in a regiment that had supplied officers and troops to the British forces in South Africa during the war. My mother, when some one is late for an appointment, uses the phrase, "Were you lost in the Boer War".
I can imagine that the number of your age is pretty high
@@zhess4096 I believe it was Grade 1, so I would have been 6. That was 55 years ago. The veteran was in his 80's so he would have been in his 20's during the war.
My mom was from South Africa. She came to the States in 1959. My great-grandfather fought in the Boer war. He was from Britain, from Newcastle. I never met him. He died long before I was born.
@@nativetexanfulso he was English then stayed in SA
@@hanoitripper1809 Yes, he spent the rest of his life there, started a small business, got married and had four kids. His wife had been born in South Africa, but her parents migrated there from Britain as well.
Just thought I'd pop in to say that if anyone is visiting South Africa for tourism, it would be worth it for you to visit the Anglo-Boer war museum and Womens' monument in Bloemfontein, since it has been recently renovated and has very unique items on exhibit, including the table and chairs of the Transvaal government and the shrapnel-damaged rifle of Danie Theron (spiritual grandfather of SA's special forces).
Just something interesting to add, I'm a Boer living in SA. At the Battle of Spion Kop, two men that where in this battle will become well known figures worldwide. The 2 men were Winston Churchill and Mohandas Gandhi. Also at Anfield Football (Soccer) stadium in Liverpool, one section is called Spionkop. During this battle the British suffered 243 fatalities and 1250 were injured whereas the Boers suffered only 68 fatalities and 267 were injured.
Duchal van Wyngaard , also Jan Smuts who played a major role in British history in later years.
There's a hill in my hometown in Ireland called "Spion Kop" after the battle.
Do the Boers still hate the British? I read a British man was beaten to death outside a rugby game by some Boers.
@@boeriesedinge416 en Louis Botha, hy was die bevelvoerder by Spioenkop
@@europa1387 , only when they deny their responsibility in the hunger death of nearly 30000 Boer children and woman in their concentration camps.
Thank you House of History, this isn't taught in public schools anymore sadly.
Thank you for the research. I live in the small town of Standerton, Mpumalanga in SA. Standerton was the location of one of the concentration camps of the Boer War. A memorial still stands today at the original site of this camp, on the banks of the Vaal River, where more than 500 children lost their lives.
Many of my family died in that very camp
They were almost as bad as the concentration camps in Nazi Germany.
I appreciate your efforts at correct pronunciation - it's the best I've heard by any non-native documentary.
One mistake in your storie: The Boers~The Afrikaner came from the Cape Colony decended from Dutch (arrived from 1652) German, French (Hugonots1795) and other European pioneers. . The main Stream of British pioneers or settlers arrived 1820.
I enjoyed it. And not many people know that SA European English Speakers speak English with a unique SA dialect
Huguenots arrived in 1688
@@tedmarais840 That makes so much sense now. I've always wondered why these Dutch descendants had French names at times. Now I understand better they weren't all Dutch. My ancestors were Dutch, but they went West, not South, to New Amsterdam. Just FWIW, I also have an English ancestor who fought in the Imperial Yeomanry and then immigrated to the United States 20 years later.
There were many Huguenots in the Dutch settlements in the Hudson valley, especially Long Island. It seems wherever the Dutch went, there were French. Might be because I think the Huguenots were Reformed so they shared a common religion with the Dutch settlers.
@@jgc4818 thats exactly it as the Huguenots fled France from religious persecution from the majority catholic France to fellow protestant nations like prussia, england, dutch colonies, etc
Only 90 Dutch people arrived at the cape in 1652, you cant say all the boers came from this small number of people?!
This has helped with my A level history so much and provides so much insight in just one video. Thank you!
this is so well put together! thank you for your hard wotk
Interesting introduction to a subject I knew nothing of previously. Will dig deeper. Thanks for naming your sources
Very interesting about a war that I didnt know much about before. Greetings from Sweden
Great summary of this part of history. It was done so professional by you.
Thank you for the video! I really like South African history, very interesting.
Loved this video you did some good homework! Did you know that Boer Generals were in charge of South Africa for the first 38 years of it's existence? (1910-1938, Louis Botha, JBM Hertzog and Jan Smuts) The Boer Generals lost their republics but won South Africa hahaha. Did you know that South Africa only had Afrikaner Prime Ministers from 1910- 1994, mostly decendents from Boer Republics? I felt proud that you used my Boer War colourised photos, you are most welcome!
Thank you very much for the kind comment, those incredible colourized photographs and the interesting additional information!
What about the appointment of Cecil John Rhodes as the prime minister of the Union of South Africa in 1910. Rhodes was intrinsically British. Am I mistaken in this regard?
@@mervynwayburne5688 Thats well after the boer war
@@kobusvermeulen5955 Not really. The Second Anglo-Boer War ended in 1902 and Rhodes became prime minister in 1910, which was only 8 years later.
Got the Republic but not the wealth though. Always about money..
Excellent video
Excellent video , thanks 👍
@House of History your pronunciation is brilliant, my ancestor was paul kruger, thanks for this
After studying these War(s) I am happy that the peace accord was a favorable one for the Boers who had fought so valiantly and had lost so much in defense of their lands and
Values.
Thank you that was very interesting!!
I was lucky enough to go on a history tour last year and I got to visit some of the sites. I would recommend visiting them when we finally get to travel again.
I'd love to go there!
Boers vs Britain
Boers: I have the high ground
Britain: I have concentration camps
You are correct Sir
biggest sad thing that happend
A. They were refugee camps that were a result of Boer tactics
B. 1400 British soldier also died in those camps in spite of the resources
C. British didn't invent concentration camps, Would be something if the British figured out the magical technology of putting a lot of people into one place in 1900.... totally hasn't been done before.
D. Boers actually destroyed resources bound for those camps.
When you fight a guerilla war, You get Guerilla results. When you use homesteads and farms to hide guns and men and only rush out for small campaigns to run back and hide again your enemy has to take a drastic measures. Europe never fought guerilla because guerilla never bennafitted anyone but soley those who use it.
The Boers you have to remember, They away from the British because they made these lawless people follow laws... that's not exaggeration. They were outside the Dutch administrative region and ran when the British took over and imposed laws.
The great trek was marked by slaughters and massacres both to and from.
The republic's were racially set up and the Boer people were very racist even to today if you know anything about modern South Africa.
Apartheid was a result of Boer racism and popularism.
The Boers even today hold racist rallies aimed around white supremacy and domination and setting up white countries, You can find some on discord and Twitter owned roughly by the same organisations. I get to speak to men from cape town (Anglo South Africans and Afrikaaners who don't like being called boer) who talk to be about the EFF and the Boer and Zulu racism and xenophobia.
When apartheid ended, It was mostly Anglos and natives who supported it, It was removed very poorly and resulted in a one party dominated government until today which crippled South Africa. But it was met with a lot of support from the British and even the Queen.
Most modern day Boer children simply call themselves Afrikaaners because of the racist and derogatory history of Boers past and present.
With respects to Boer civilians, They shouldn't be bound by the will of their ancestors or the conduct of the ignorant and arrogant.
@@mitchellgruninger9992 Yes, and the British with their World Empire were holy saints and brought peace and hapiness into the world. Amen.
@@henryvanraaij9267 I dont think so those days have long gone , my great grandfather fought in this war . and by that time the british empire was well on the wain .
I am a Boer and grand. But when will the Brits realize we are the World Champs. Eendrag maak mag
The Zulus are the champs, we conquered britain at Isandlwana with only traditional weapons ( The bull fight strategy)
Awe
laugh out loud. south africa is a shit hole now taken over by scavengers
@@senzosibutha3036 Yes and us Boers gave you a pk at Bloedrivier...only 300 against thousands..dont bring sticks to a gunfight
@@senzosibutha3036 That was just one battle. By the end of the Anglo Zulu war the zulus ended up getting slaughtered by a much smaller british force
Definitely one of my favourite periods in history.
It certainly overshadowed the Boxer Rebellion in newspapers. It occurred in China at the same time!
@@HoH That for sure! Both are great periods tho!
What do you mean? Do you mean it was good what happened?
@@edusensesouthafrica5373 No it wasn’t. But i can say the same for WW2. It wasn’t good what happened, but it’s among peoples favorite time periods.
For studying history, that is.
You didn't mention that Canada, Ireland, Australia as well as New Zealand was fighting with the British. Or did I miss that? It was almost like the Boer against the world.
india as well
A very underrated war in terms of influence.
Will you do a video on the Zulu and Mahdist wars? Both are particularly interesting looks into British Imperialism against its own initial designs.
That is not my area of expertise and while I'd like to read more about it, I do not feel comfortable making a video about a subject I haven't looked into much. Thanks for the recommendation though!
@@HoH if you would like some recommended reading, I suggest Khartoum The Ultimate Imperial Adventure (for the Mahdist War Anglo Sudan War) How Can Man Die Better(Battle of Islandwana), The Washing of the Spears(formation of Zulu Nation, the Boers and The Anglo Zulu War)
These three are exceptional books that go into magnificent depth on the subjects which I think you will find fascinating.
Always happy to share good history book recommendations.
Thanks for the recommendations! Appreciate it, I'll have a look in the library next weekend.
This was the real "wild west"
Pakenham you used is the best reference!
Another great video by House of History. Could you cover Lawrence of Arabia ? Thanking you in advance.
Very good suggestion! I am currently working on a big project but LoA is on my list once I am done with this!
Appreciate.
Thank you for this interesting video. My great grandfather fought in the Boer War. He was born in Rotterdam Holland in 1880. I do have a question, were the men that fought from Holland recruited, drafted, or did they volunteer? Thank you very much.
Unless they had citizenship of one of the Boer republics, they would all have been volunteers. Interestingly Vincent van Gogh's brother also volunteered and fought with the Hollander Corps.
Smuts hero turned Traitor
Volunteered
@@philipjooste9075 sand he's still buried here
@@Shack01why smuts a traitor
Yes, the Dutch moved North in 1830 when the British introduced basic rights for African natives & abolished slavery which the Dutch weren't too happy about.
Wow.you can be so wrong.is this the latest version of the truth
Nonsense, it was British rule that they weren't happy about, the British gave less rights to the blacks than the Afrikaners did, which are also African natives by the way, just white ones.
@@Bullbotha So Dutch settlers are white African natives? If there's any evidence to support your opinion I'd be interested to see it. It surely won't be provided by the black slave farm workers that the Afrikaners kept though. British did abolish slavery, Dutch didn't. Fact.
@@teabagmcpick889 What are your sources? The Boers weren't aligned with the Dutch when the Great Trek began.
@@devinfraserashpole4753 I never said they were but Dutch in origin or Dutch in alignment. What difference does that make to the original point being made? The original point was to question which of the two incoming foreign settlers, first the Dutch & then the British, treated the native population better with regard to personal freedoms & work rights.
that is so interesting, i have just found out that my great.... grandfather Hendrik Jeremias is tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog by Fouriesburg gevang op 30.7.1900 en is na Diyatalawakamp, in Ceylon gestuur. Hy moes die eed van getrouheid geneem het want op 15.1.1902 is hy in die Brandfort konsentrasiekamp opgeneem en is die volgende dag ontslaan, waarna hy na Brandfort gegaan het.
In later jare was hy 'n kabinetmaker en in sy laaste jare was hy op die plaas Borsluisspruit, in die Theunissendistrik.
Zeer interessant, dankjewel voor het delen!
@@HoH Gern geschehen, danke, dass Sie die Geschichte zum Leben erweckt haben :)
Why did you start off in English then move to Dutch lol
It's all good...ek verstaan albei. Interesting life story.
Are you Dutch? I almost thought you had an Afrikaans accent if it wasn't for the rolling R's. Are you perhaps a little bit interested in what happened to us because of our shared Dutch heritage?
I think He's currently living in Canada.
@@Justanothaguy I'm sure Canada had a big Dutch immigration during the start of its history. Probably explains some for their accents
@@BlackTeethMedia Nah, the bulk of immigration to Canada begun with the French and English, you wouldn't see any serious migration from Europe until later in Canada's development.
That's usually what happens, I believe. Lots of stuff on telegram
@@Justanothaguy British or Anglo-Celtic not English settlement. Due to the fact of Welsh, Irish and Scottish settlers there
Are you going to do a video about the first boer war?
Probably not anytime soon. At least not an in-depth video like this one.
Yeah it didn’t last long, the British literally lost every battle.
Thank you
Thanks!
You too!
Why did the British Empire engaged in a war with the two Boer republics? The British had their own Cape Colony (already taken from the Boers, that is why the Boers moved out to create their own republics ). The Boers were not a threat to the mighty empire. The only thing they wanted is to be independent.
They were after the boers gold.
@@craigbritz1684 The weird British phobia about slavery may have had something to do with it.
@Many Okuhs Who was responsible for ending the slave trade?
@Many Okuhs England outlawed slavery 32 years before the civil war started. Not only that. they expended thoudands of their own lives and treasure to stop the rest of the world from engaging in slavery. BTW forced Indian labour is a myth.
@Many Okuhs 1. Passing a law is not the same as stopping something. The English expended lives and treasure to stop the slave trade. Research "West Africa Squadron" The US Navy also helped.
2. You just made that up.
3. Indentured labour is not slavery.
im proud to be a Boer!!
Hello, Mr. Boer, how are you doing?
As a matter of personal interest, I am trying to track down my physical education teacher that had a profound impression on me. His name was Colonel Morate. Not sure of the spelling of his last name, but a memorable character to say the least His physical appearance was that he carried a riding crop and wore riding pants with boots. He often told us of his service in the Boer war and how he was shot in the head inflicting a wound that resulted in his requiring "Coke" bottle bottom thick glasses. I was in his class in the eighth grade in 1947 at Thomas Starr King Jr. High School, Los Angeles, CA. Any further biography on him would be appreciated.
Thanks:
George
I learned to drink "Spook and
Diesel" when I was there ten years ago 😎
I grew up in Vereeniging (we emigrated to SA in 1974). I have faint memories of being picked on by Afrikaans kids because of "what you did to my family in the War". That seemed to fade, though, as time went on. There is still a blockhouse between Vereeniging and Meyerton, and there are several groups/pages on Facebook dedicated to such monuments - very interesting.
As it happens I did basic training for National Service in Kimberley and spent many (sometimes fun!) hours rampaging over the veld near Magersfontein. We would occasionally find old cartridge cases which were generally too corroded to really tell, but certainly were either .303 or Mauser ones. They were not modern 7.62 mm or 5.56 mm ones anyway.
Always used to imagine how both Boer and Brit soldiers moved over the land 80-odd years before (as it was then!) and used to wonder how it was, compared to a modern military, with its medical, communications and logistics support. Back in the Boer War, it was heliographs, horses and wagons! Must have been hard work.
Why did your family emigrate to SA
We are facing our second genocide. ....thanks to the world. ....thanks for denying it. ....proud boer.
organize
I hear you from America! Armed independence is the only way you are going to survive! Sadly the United states is decaying much in the same way, another 15-20 years and we will be living in compounds as well
(Citation needed)
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Ons vir jou Suid-Afrika 🇿🇦
Would love to hear your views about the execution of Breaker Morant.
Thanks for this "we for thee South Africa"
Thank you for this video, I found it interesting as my great great great grandfather, my great great grandfather and his brother fought as boers from my Mothers South African side but British from my father.
Did they meet
The first concentrate-camps has been esteblished by the " glorious" british empire in Southafrica and has been killed several tausend peoples also womens ...by starvation! Glorious
killer or heroes?
Approximately 25000 Black and white
@@johnritchie4801 - 28,000+ were just Boers.
@@JUAN_OLIVIER Thanks i knew it was in that vicinity just not exactly how many
@@johnritchie4801 And about 20 000 Blacks.
@Klaidi Rubiku Half truth
I grew in South Africa and knew survivors of Th Boer war both Black and White
Cape Colored people do not identify as Black, I know this first hand and they speak Afrikaans and English
That name Botha has had a recurrent role in that area.
Why did the Boer sleep with their shoes on ? " To keep de wet from defeat"
😂😂😂
Thank you that was very interesting,I'm a decendant from the settlement program of the Dutch settlers ,and 1820 British settlers on the Stentor ship .German missionaries with the Berlin mission society .and Scottish minning immigrants,one of my great grandmother was in the British camps my great great great grandfather was a transport rider carrying good by ox wagon .One of my uncles had a farm in waterval boven there were left overs from theses wars some he had found like old rifles and some stone barriers fighters might have hid behind .but I'm not sur the history of sharpy exactly happened there .
British Empire: "Nobody does a great little concentration camp like we do..."
Adolph: "Oh yeah...hold my Wiener Schnitzel..."
Soviet Union: Hold my beer
@@CeluiEtSeul How many camps should we have?
Most leaders: Maybe a dozen or two.
Stalin: Yes
To be fair to the Brit’s it wasn’t really a death like Germany’s
But regardless ppl were still treated like shit
@@enthusium3145 More than 26,000 women and children were starved to death in those camps. That's not just 'treated like shit'.
@House of History Well researched.. thanks.. would have added a few more things but overall very good.. its 27000 woman and elderly as well as majority children who died on the camps, a sixth of thre total population.
My family heritage is traceable back to 1500's holland, my great grandfather generations back was President Paul Kruger (paternal)who married into our Eloff family (maternal) whom S.J. Eloff Veldtkornet was the leader of the siege of mafikeng and jokingly called Baden Powell to tease him over the capture of Mafikeng, was sold out by genrl Cronje and ultimately surrendered to british and was a P.O.W on St. Helena, his brother Jan Eloff was the 1st Mining commissioner in Johannesburg, Eloffsdal a suburb of Johannesburg and 10 streets named Eloff street in honour. Family story quite extensive but interesting from a forefather that was murdered by a neighbours slave in 1600's Cape through to 2nd ABW.
I can send you some info if you like I can forward you some good verified info and some interesting connections found over years in YT creators content about tge ABW.
Regards
My great grandfather was a boer he was captured age 19 at the lion river and sent to st helena where he was one of the 3 boers that stayed and married a local would like to find more information if anyone can help his last name was piek
What was his last name? Some families have well-detailed records.
Also, what town was he and his family from, some towns have excellently documented histories.
@@steyndewet1191 Dit lyk of die persoon se van "Piek" was.
Many people in my area close to Cape Town have the surname 'Piek'. Did he have tanned skin? The 'Piek' family in my area have tanned skin.
You know that Queen Victoria was alive to see the beginning of this war but she wasn't alive to see the ending of the war.
Poor South Africa.
you glossed over the fact that the blacks who fought with the british were completely left out of the peace negotiations and were essentially shafted.
they starved my greate grandperants
the battle of spionkop has always interested me it seems to for shadow the horrors of the future great war of 1914-18
As another note the estimated death now is more than 30000 some others indicate more like 150 000
*BitterEinders*
/respek!
Don't forget the reason the Boars didn't want to live under the British is because the British dissolved slavery and the Boars wanted to keep slavery
i am seeking information about members of my family Randemeyer and Taylor who both were in the Standerton concentration camp. If you can help please let me know.
@11:02 the person in the middle might be my great grand Father. I will double check a photo my father has.... of his grand father Van der Westhuzen...
Why can no one say the Groot trek correct ? It is Die Groot trek
Ek dink hy het die Nederlandse uitspraak probeer sê: De Grote Trek.
Analysis phases of South Africa war 1899 to 1902?
Pray an act of perfect contrition everyday
Do you always start with that snatch of Elgar?
My mother's father a British soldier, in a shot in the knee, about 1900. Its what kept him out of WW1, so I guess he ( and I....my mum was born ( last of 13) in 1923 ) was a bit lucky.He is my earliest memory, standing next to his permanent chair ( he was blind by 1951) asking cunningly if he would like a sweetie from his sweetie jar. Only way a kid could get sweets during rationing.
Yes. It is one of my favourite concertos! You’re the first one ever that recognized it.
Thanks for your comment and fascinating story
Save the boer
I think that you meant to say that "in 1830, the Boers migrated 'from' South Africa" to Transval and The Orange Free State?
I am glad you said "treaty" and not defeat, and that mean that the Tranvaal and Vrystaat still belongs to the Boers and any politicks and governments after the 1902 treaty of Vereeniging over the two Boer republics are a false.
My Great-Grandfather fought in this war, lied about his age (15) and still passed basic training! 90th Rifles/Royal Winnipeg Rifles won the Military Medal. Later served again in World War 1 as a Warrant Officer, fought at Passchendaele in 1917 he said that was in his view THE WORST battle he was ever in. He was working as an electrician after the war and was too old for the WW2 but when asked anything about WW2 he would simply say "The Germans will not win, they already tried the first time".
Well my great grandfather was in opposiion to yours twice, during the boer war, and again in the first world war when he fought for germany in south west africa, against south african wishes, he was a rebel soldier.
@@Bullbotha And 100 years before if they were both in the Napoleonic Wars, Britain and Prussia were great allies!! All depends on who is in power, if it depended on the PEOPLE we would all be friends and trading partners...
@@Bullbothawhat was his name was he in the maritz raid
Our English Angel may her soul rest in peace and her legacy and memory live on for all time
atleast they won the 3de anglo boer war in 2019
sweet victory, Oom Paul would have loved that!
No concentration camps in Japan haha
@@johanmeyer99 ?
We are not talk about rwc final?
@@johanmeyer99 yes hahahaha , we made a big joke about it in SA
Watch the movie "Breaker Morant" a true story when Australian bush soldiers were executed for killing Boer prisoners. Even though they claimed they were operating under express orders of Kitchener himself. Edward Woodward plays the part of Morant brilliantly.
morant was a murderer, a descendant of the scum of the british isles.
What do you mean the Boers migrated to South Africa in 1830? The Dutch arrived in SA in 1652 and they were the original Boers who settled in the Cape.
You're completely right. Can't believe I didn't spot this mistake - in my mind, I was writing about the Grote Trek and the migration northward of the Boers.
I'll see what I can do to rectify this mistake.
Oath of loyalty (to Britain), not oath of neutrality.
Hmmmm, the Dutch Boers had been in South Africa for centuries before 1830??? Just saying?
My grandpa fought in boer war
My dad is from the Transvaal
My great great..... Great grandpa 🫡 oupa paul, jameson raid was stopped by his grandson my great great great grandfather sarel johannes eloff, so many jn my ancestry i can be proud of
Jokes on the Brits they lost their empire shortly after....too bad the Boers didn't rebel in ww1
@Swett Yankees? Where? I'm from the south yankees are up north. We fought our own war against them and probably before it is all over will have to again....but regardless doesn't change the fact Brittain went from owning 25% of the world to an island in less than a century so.....
Black Week, 3 strikes and you're out.
my father is afrikaans, so i would know that those pronunciations are weird.
you should pronounce a hard "R" it does'nt come from the back of the mouth.
The guy making the video is Dutch, afrikaans is actually dutch language with a very small accent
They came to SA in 1652...
He keeps on saying "annexed", does this mean attacked
"Annexed" usually refers to a geographical area/region taken by force.
@@lionelhutz5137 Or held with force after being occupied with little force & an amount of coercion.
Watch the movie Breaker Morant
@House of History i think your analysis was brilliant over all, but i can not disagree more on section about orange free state and Transvaal different options on surrendering, the country might have been divider yes but there was clear distinction made in the sense of, people who collaborated with the british were called joiners the ones who surrendered were hands uppers in afrikaans handsoppers, those two groups were completely cut from social life by the majority transvaal and OFS to such a degree, their names were sealed by parliament and minister of education for 50 odd years, to keep those peoples identities secret to a degree, but was impossible as burgers knew if their neighbour was a joiner or something, families were split instantly and never spoke to each other again, its taken generation's to sort of heal that whole situations and have them live in society without discrimination for what they're ancestors did. Majority of people moved on but let me tell you there's many families still hold the hate for the other for merely being descendent of a joiner, they say its in the dna once a traitor always a traitor,
My point is your analysis was switched around majority of both republics wanted to fight till the end and were called bitterenders, fight till the bitter end, but were forced to sign peace because their woman and children were dying like flies, most recent estimates which to my dismay is not more widely published close to 50 000 woman and children, almost a 3rd of the population.
The ones calling for surrendering were a small minority of both republics,
Lets call it what it was.... An attempted extermination of the Boer nation.
Kuddo's on the video well done
Is Afrikaans and Dutch is like English from the UK and English from the US?
No.
Afrikaans is about 80 - 90% based on Dutch, simplified and added lexicon influence from Malay (Indonesian slaves brought to Cape in 1600's by VOC), Khoi-San, African languages and more and more English as times go by.
My great great great grandfather fought as an officer in the British army in this war
Why don't call Kitchener a war criminal?
While it is a Nazi propaganda film, Ohm Krüger really does portray the war accurately. Kitchener setting up the concentration camps demoralized the Boers and in a last ditch attempt to win the war, Krüger traveled to Europe to appeal to the French, Dutch, and Germans. But they wouldn't hear it, and Krüger died in exile in Switzerland, as his health was already going downhill by that point (he's portrayed as going blind in the movie).
General Jacobus johannes viljoen
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I am not sure if I got it right. The afrikaans are the same as the boer people?
Yes.
Mainly Dutch decency.
Well kinda yes, 'Afrikaners' are the Boers. 'The Afrikaans' would likely/possibly be referring to an Afrikaans language speaker. In that case, no - not all Afrikaans speakers are Boer/Afrikaner.
Fascinating that it was the British that actually created the first concentration camps. Obviously the purposes were FAR different but people still died. Kitchener was much like all generals of that period. A narcissist who only cared about status climbing not the things he had to do to get there. As far as caring for his own men he did but he was ruthless against enemies of Britain.
the purpose was the eradication of the boer. the concentration camps served that purpose well and inspired the nazis to do the same
@@mikehunt3800 not eradication. Just the stopping of their will to fight.
He didn’t care about his own, he refused to respond to clear the breaker.
Orange free means 33 free for those that knows
There are a similarity between the Boer republics and Brexit. Brits hate the idea that they will be overrun by illegal's migrants. Boers felt the same of these gold miners. Usually, they where just their for the gold dig and nothing more. Goldfields were peculiarly lawless places. The human and environmental costs of the Gold Rush were substantial. Boers dependent on hunting, gathering and agriculture, became the victims of starvation and disease, as gravel, silt and toxic chemicals from prospecting operations killed and destroyed habitats. .
Australian units there too btw watch BREAKER MORANT
czcams.com/video/BI7KJnRlsS4/video.html&ab_channel=chasersbf
Not much to be proud of - Australians have much to answer for. Breaker Morant and co got what they deserved.
Thanks for this, enjoyed it as well as its inherent information, I must confess that your evident bias and editorials regarding many actions are somewhat frustrating but in our zeitgeist your interpretation will be seen as one of the more favourable to the British people, who lived there almost as long as Boer folks, (Notably nothing mentioned regarding native nationals, Zululand etc.?) so I say thànk you again and keep them flowing. An Englishman.
He didnt have to mention anything about zulus because they fought on the boer side
ANV , no, they didn't. It was decided between the Boere and British to keep the black people out of the war. The British soon broke that agreement and used black people.
David S Cameron , oh please - it is arrogance like yours that made the British believe they have a right to the gold discovered in the ZAR. The same arrogance that lead to the negligent death of 30000 Boer woman and children in the British concentration camps. Something for which Britain never offered an apology. More that 10% of Boers were killed, the vast majority in the camps.