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South Africa 1902

Second Boer War
Part of the Boer Wars
Boers at Spion Kop, 1900 - Project Gutenberg eText 16462.jpg
Boer militiamen at Spionkop
Date October 11, 1899 – May 31, 1902 (1899-10-11 – 1902-05-31)
(2 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 6 days)
Location Southern Africa (present-day South Africa and Swaziland)
Result

British victory

Territorial
changes
British administration over The Orange Free State and the Transvaal in accordance with the Treaty of Vereeniging
Belligerents
 Canada
British Raj India
New Zealand New Zealand
 British Ceylon

 Orange Free State
 South African Republic
Afrikaner Vryheidsvlag.svg Cape Boers

Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Lord Salisbury
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Joseph Chamberlain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Lord Milner
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Lord Roberts
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Sir Redvers Buller
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Lord Kitchener
Canada Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Australia Sir Edmund Barton
South African Republic Paul Kruger
South African Republic Louis Botha
South African Republic Schalk W. Burger
South African Republic Koos de la Rey
Orange Free State Martinus Steyn
Orange Free State Christiaan de Wet
South African Republic Piet Cronjé (POW)
South African Republic Piet Joubert
Strength
British Regulars:
347,000
Colonial Forces:
103,000–153,000
Black South African Auxillaries:
100,000 [1]
Boer Commandos:
Transvaal Boers
25,000
Free State Boers
15,000
Cape Boers
Black Boer Auxillaries:
10,000 [2]
Foreign Volunteers:
5,400+
Casualties and losses
Military casualties:
22,092 dead
934 missing
22,828 wounded

Military casualties:
6,189 dead
24,000 Boer prisoners sent overseas;

21,256 bitter-enders surrendered at the end of the war;

Civilian casualties: 46,370, of which 26,370 were Boer women and children who died in concentration camps, along with another 20, 000+ black Africans of the 115,000 interned in separate concentration camps

British victory

 Orange Free State
 South African Republic
Afrikaner Vryheidsvlag.svg Cape Boers

Military casualties:
6,189 dead
24,000 Boer prisoners sent overseas;

21,256 bitter-enders surrendered at the end of the war;

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 — 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa. It is also known variously as the Boer War, Anglo-Boer War, South African War or Anglo-Boer South African War. Initial Boer attacks were successful, and though British reinforcements later reversed these, the war continued for years with Boer guerrilla warfare, until harsh British counter-measures brought them to terms.


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