{"id":80127,"date":"2023-02-18T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=80127"},"modified":"2023-02-17T16:12:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T21:12:59","slug":"british-empire-crackdown-in-south-africa-boer-war-1899-1902","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/02\/18\/british-empire-crackdown-in-south-africa-boer-war-1899-1902\/","title":{"rendered":"British Empire Crackdown in South Africa &#8211; Boer War 1899-1902"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/exVno170qhU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Great War<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 17 Feb 2023<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd Boer War saw the British Empire bring to bear the entire imperial might to put to rest a dispute with the Boer Republics in South Africa. With scorched earth tactics and the use of concentration camps, the Boer War was a glimpse of what was to come in 20th century warfare.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT THE CHANNEL<br \/>\nPatreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/realtimehistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/realtimehistory<\/a><br \/>\nNebula: <a href=\"https:\/\/nebula.tv\/realtimehistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/nebula.tv\/realtimehistory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb THANKS TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS<br \/>\nJohn Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen R\u00f8ste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES<br \/>\n\u2022 Leo Amery (ed.) <em>The Times History of the War in South Africa<\/em>, 7 Volumes, (London, William Clowes, 1902-1909)<br \/>\n\u2022 A British Officer, <em>An Absent Minded War<\/em> (London, Milne, 1900)<br \/>\n\u2022 Thomas Pakenham, <em>The Boer War<\/em> (London, Abacus, 1979)<br \/>\n\u2022 John Gooch (ed.) <em>The Boer War: Direction, Image and Experience<\/em> (London, Frank Cass, 1999)<br \/>\n\u2022 Fransjohan Pretorius, <em>Life on Commando<\/em> (Cape Town, Human &#038; Rousseau, 2000)<br \/>\n\u2022 Fransjohan Pretorius, <em>The Historical Dictionary of the Anglo-Boer Wa<\/em>r (Lanham, Scarecrow Press, 2010)<br \/>\n\u2022 Peter Trew, <em>The Boer War Generals<\/em> (Johannesburg, Jonathan Ball, 1999)<br \/>\n\u2022 S.B. Spies, <em>Methods of Barbarism? Roberts and Kitchener and Civilians in the Boer Republics<\/em> (Cape Town, Human &#038; Rousseau, 1977)<br \/>\n\u2022 Emily Hobhouse, <em>The Brunt of War and Where it Fell<\/em> (London, Methuen &#038; Co., 1902)<br \/>\n\u2022 Deneys Reitz, <em>Commando<\/em> (London, Faber &#038; Faber, 1905)<br \/>\n\u2022 Peter Warwick (ed.) <em>The South African War<\/em> (Harlow, Longman, 1980)<br \/>\n\u2022 Spencer Jones, <em>From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform of the British Army 1902 \u2013 1914<\/em> (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2012)<br \/>\n\u2022 Spencer Jones, &#8220;Shooting Power: A Study of the Effectiveness of Boer and British Rifle Fire, 1899-1914&#8221; in the <em>British Journal for Military History<\/em>, Vol.1, Issue 1, 2014.<br \/>\n\u2022 Bill Nasson, <em>The South African War 1899 \u2013 1902<\/em> (London, Arnold, 1999)<br \/>\n\u2022 Stephen Miller, <em>Volunteers on the Veld: Britain&#8217;s Citizen Soldiers and the South African War 1899-1902<\/em> (Norman, University of Oklahoma, 2007)<br \/>\n\u2022 Fred R. van Hartesveldt, <em>The Boer War: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography<\/em> (London, Greenwood, 2000)<br \/>\n\u2022 Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (ed.), <em>The Boer War: Army, Nation and Empire<\/em> (Canberra, Army History Unit, 2000)<br \/>\n\u2022 John Stirling, <em>Our Regiments in South Africa<\/em> (London, W. Blackwood, 1903)<br \/>\n\u2022 Winston S. Churchill, <em>London to Ladysmith via Pretoria<\/em> (London, Longmans, Green &#038; Co, 1900)<br \/>\n\u2022 Ian Hamilton and Victor Sampson, <em>Anti-Commando<\/em> (London, Faber &#038; Faber, 1931)<br \/>\n\u2022 Andre Wessels (ed.) <em>Lord Roberts and the War in South Africa 1899 \u2013 1902<\/em> (London, Army Records Society, 2000)<br \/>\n\u2022 Andre Wessels (ed.) <em>Lord Kitchener and the War in South Africa 1899 \u2013 1902<\/em> (London, Army Records Society, 2006)<br \/>\n\u2022 Roy Jenkins, <em>Churchill. A Biography<\/em> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2001)<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbCREDITS<br \/>\nPresented by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nWritten by: Spencer Jones, Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nDirector: Toni Steller &#038; Florian Wittig<br \/>\nDirector of Photography: Toni Steller<br \/>\nSound: Toni Steller<br \/>\nEditing: Jose Gamez<br \/>\nMotion Design: Toni Steller<br \/>\nMixing, Mastering &#038; Sound Design: <a href=\"http:\/\/above-zero.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/above-zero.com<\/a><br \/>\nResearch by: Spencer Jones<br \/>\nFact checking: Florian Wittig<\/p>\n<p>Channel Design: Yves Thimian<\/p>\n<p>Contains licensed material by getty images and AP Archive<br \/>\nMaps: MapTiler\/OpenStreetMap Contributors &#038; GEOlayers3<br \/>\nAll rights reserved &#8211; Real Time History GmbH 2023<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-18-at-14-51-31-British-Empire-Crackdown-in-South-Africa-\u2013-Boer-War-1899-1902-Quotulatiousness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-18-at-14-51-31-British-Empire-Crackdown-in-South-Africa-\u2013-Boer-War-1899-1902-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-80129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-18-at-14-51-31-British-Empire-Crackdown-in-South-Africa-\u2013-Boer-War-1899-1902-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-18-at-14-51-31-British-Empire-Crackdown-in-South-Africa-\u2013-Boer-War-1899-1902-Quotulatiousness-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-18-at-14-51-31-British-Empire-Crackdown-in-South-Africa-\u2013-Boer-War-1899-1902-Quotulatiousness-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-18-at-14-51-31-British-Empire-Crackdown-in-South-Africa-\u2013-Boer-War-1899-1902-Quotulatiousness.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great War Published 17 Feb 2023 The 2nd Boer War saw the British Empire bring to bear the entire imperial might to put to rest a dispute with the Boer Republics in South Africa. 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