Farmers at Arms: Second Boer War 1899-1902

The first modern insurgency—and how the British crushed it. The war in South Africa was over. Field Marshal Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts, the legendary British commander, marched his 38,000 men into the main plaza in Pretoria, then capital of the Boer confederation. It was 2:15 on the afternoon of June 5, 1900. They had marched …

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