Portal:Boer Wars
A collection of texts associated with the Boer Wars of 1880-1902.
Documents from the War
[edit]- A Century of Wrong, important propaganda tool against the British written in 1900 by Francis William Reitz
- Pretoria Convention, treaty ending the first war in 1881
- Peace of Vereeniging, treaty ending the second war in 1902
- Middelberg Proposal, preliminary letter leading to the Peace of Vereeniging. Written by British General Herbert Kritchener to General Louis Botha.
- Brunt of the War, text condemning British concentration camps by Emily Hobhouse
- Scapegoats of the Empire, 1907 by George Witton
- Canadian Appeal for the Widows and Orphans of the South African War, a 1900 speech by Malcolm Graeme Cameron
- Letter from CFF Barker to TH Barker, 28 March 1900, letter from a trooper at the Relief of Ladysmith to his family in England
Stories set in the wars
[edit]- A Sahibs' War, 1901 by Author:Rudyard Kipling
Analytical works
[edit]- The Young Colonists; A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars, 1898 by George Alfred Henty[1]
- The Great Boer War, 1900 by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Boer War, 1927 excerpt from An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas K. Gandhi
- Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900
- The Transvaal war: a lecture delivered in the University of Cambridge on 9th November, 1899 (1899) by John Westlake
Newspaper articles
[edit]- How Lieut. Churchill Escaped From Boers, as it appeared in the 1900 New York Times
Reference works
[edit]- "Boer War," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)