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the crisis of the Boer War in South Africa. The British concern was that other European states might intervene on the side of the Boers. European states...

between France and the United Kingdom in East Africa". 1899-1902: The Second Boer War: Britain trying to control it's colonies in South Africa. Though the British...

total war was the Boer War. South Africa was valuable because it provided diamonds and gold. What tactics did the British use to win the Boer War? Burned...

Zulu War. 1881, Col. Charles Edward Swaine served in the Boer War. 1882, Col. Charles Edward Swaine served as Aide-de-Campe in the Egyptian War. 1884–5...

Cambridge Lieutenant, Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry Captain, Imperial Yeomanry, Boer War 1861 September 3, George Wombwell and Lady Julia Sarah Alice Child-Villiers...

Service Member, Council of India Boer War (1899–1900) Officer, 7th Volunteer Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment World War I Fellow, Land Agents' Society...

Towneley-Bertie, Lord Norreys (8 February 1884 – 24 September 1919) 1899–1902, Boer War 1858 July 10, Caroline Theresa Towneley and Montagu Arthur Bertie married...

the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House. 1900, Boer War 1919 July 30, James Somerville, Baron Athlumney and Margery Boan married...

British Empire annexed and conquered South Africa in the Zulu and the Boer wars, and captured Egypt and Sudan from the north. It was granted Cyprus from...

attended.) 1899, Holford joined the 1st Life Guards in South Africa, for the Boer War. 1900 June 3, Sunday, Whit Sunday, Holford was present at a Whitsun house...

financiers settled in our midst ever since the South African boom (before the Boer War) set in." Alfred Beit James Rochfort Maguire 1888, Ludwig Neumann and Rose...

Egyptian Campaign (1882) Aide-to-Camp, the Duke of Cambridge (1885 – 1895) Boer War (1900 – 1901) Secretary, Princess Victoria's Rest Clubs for Nurses (1918)...

Cambridge (no degree) Captain and “honorary major,” Dorset Imperial Yeomanry, Boer War Conservative Party (until 1906) 1868 May 25, Ivor Bertie Guest and Lady...

– June 1917. Vasily Gurko is the one who was in the Transvaal and 2nd Boer War. He was exiled to the U.K. in 1917: he was given "permission to leave the...

Operations Inc, 2004. Military-Genealogy.com, comp. UK, Casualties of the Boer War, 1899-1902 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations...

were largely successful - because they had superior weapons Boer War (2nd) - (1899-1902) war between Britain and South Africa Ottoman Empire - a Turkish-ruled...

Christchurch, Oxford Member of Parliament, Conservative (1886–1892; 1910–1929) Boer War (1899–1900) Derbyshire Yeomanry Gallipoli Campaign 1880 February 23, Lord...

children were. Their eldest, Archibald, Earl of Ava was there; he died in the Boer War in 1900. The 2nd son and his wife, Lord Terence and Lady Flora Blackwood...

- with the eventual rank of Sergeant, to take part in the Second Anglo-Boer War at the battle of Elandslaagte and later Wagon Hill; he remained as such...

and had picked up your morning paper and read, "The noise of war's alarm (the Boer War was the biggest front page news in 1895) should not distract attention...