Second Boer War
October 11, 1899 – May 31, 1902 · South Africa (Kimberley and the Boer republics)
Result British victory
War between the British Empire and the Boer republics, 1899-1902. Britain occupied both republics after early Boer victories; Boer fighters then waged a guerrilla campaign, answered with scorched earth and camps in which 26,000 Boer civilians died. The Treaty of Vereeniging ended the war in May 1902; the republics became British colonies, later the Union of South Africa.
United Kingdom and allies
South African Republic and allies
Other
Joseph Chamberlain
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
belligerent leader
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
belligerent leader
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
belligerent leader
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
belligerent leader
Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen
military commander
Redvers Buller
military commander
Units
Australian Army
9th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment
Canadian Army
Royal Canadian Regiment
Natal Field Force
Roberts's main army (1900)
Royal Marines
1st (UK) Division
2nd Infantry Division (United Kingdom)
3rd (UK) Division
4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)
6th (UK) Division
7th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)
History of the British 1st Division (1809–1909)
Methuen's 1st Division (1899–1900)
1st Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)
1st Royal New South Wales Lancers
Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922)
Suffolk Regiment
O Battery (The Rocket Troop) Royal Horse Artillery
Ladysmith garrison (1899–1900)
Mafeking garrison (1899–1900)
Battles 34
Key events
- Siege of Mafeking October 13, 1899 – May 17, 1900 · British victory
- Siege of Kimberley October 14, 1899 – February 15, 1900 · British victory
- Battle of Talana Hill October 20, 1899 · British tactical victory
- Battle of Elandslaagte October 21, 1899 · British victory
- Siege of Ladysmith November 2, 1899 – February 28, 1900 · British victory
- Battle of Stormberg December 10, 1899 · Boer victory
- Battle of Magersfontein December 11, 1899 · Boer victory
- Second Battle of Colenso December 15, 1899 · Boer victory
- Battle of Spion Kop January 23–24, 1900 · Boer victory
- Battle of Paardeberg February 18–27, 1900 · Anglo-Canadian victory
- Battle of Diamond Hill June 11–12, 1900 · British victory
- Battle of Bergendal August 21–27, 1900 · British victory
1899
- Siege of Mafeking October 13, 1899 – May 17, 1900 · British victory
- Battle of Kraaipan October 13, 1899 · Boer victory
- Siege of Kimberley October 14, 1899 – February 15, 1900 · British victory
- Battle of Talana Hill October 20, 1899 · British tactical victory
- Battle of Elandslaagte October 21, 1899 · British victory
- Battle of Ladysmith October 30, 1899 · Boer victory
- Siege of Ladysmith November 2, 1899 – February 28, 1900 · British victory
- Battle of Belmont (1899) November 23, 1899 · British victory
- Battle of Willow Grange November 23, 1899 · Boer Victory
- Battle of Graspan November 25, 1899 · British victory
- Battle of Modder River November 28, 1899 · British victory
- Battle of Stormberg December 10, 1899 · Boer victory
- Battle of Magersfontein December 11, 1899 · Boer victory
- Second Battle of Colenso December 15, 1899 · Boer victory
1900
- Battle of Spion Kop January 23–24, 1900 · Boer victory
- Battle of Vaal Krantz February 5–7, 1900 · Boer victory
- Battle of the Tugela Heights February 14–27, 1900 · British victory
- Battle of Paardeberg February 18–27, 1900 · Anglo-Canadian victory
- Bloody Sunday (1900) February 18, 1900 · First assault; Boer victory
- Battle of Poplar Grove March 7, 1900 · British victory
- Battle of Driefontein March 10, 1900 · British victory
- Sanna's Post March 31, 1900 · Boer victory
- Battle of Biddulphsberg May 29, 1900 · Boer victory
- Battle of Diamond Hill June 11–12, 1900 · British victory
- Battle of Dwarsvlei July 11, 1900 · Boer victory
- Battle of Elands River (1900) August 4–16, 1900 · British victory
- Battle of Bergendal August 21–27, 1900 · British victory
- Battle of Bothaville November 6, 1900 · British victory
- Battle of Nooitgedacht December 13, 1900 · Boer victory
- Battle of Helvetia December 29, 1900 · Boer victory
1901
- Battle of Blood River Poort September 17, 1901 · Boer victory
- Battle of Bakenlaagte October 30, 1901 · Boer Victory
1902
- Battle of Tweebosch March 7, 1902 · Boer victory
- Battle of Rooiwal April 11, 1902 · British victory
Before and after
- Ended by
- Treaty of Vereeniging May 31, 1902
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Also involved 53
- Winston Churchill
- Hubert Gough
- William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley
- Archibald Wavell
- John French
- Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
- Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet
- J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone
- Arthur Wauchope
- Edward Bulfin
- Philip Chetwode
- Horace Smith-Dorrien
- Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
- Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
- Edward Smith
- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
- Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
- William Pulteney
- Robert Brooke-Popham
- Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson
- Archibald James Murray
- Charles Macpherson Dobell
- Herbert Lawrence
- Edward Chaytor
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- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
- Bryan Mahon
- Andrew Wauchope
- George White
- Christiaan de Wet
- Walter Braithwaite
- Aylmer Hunter-Weston
- Frederick Stopford
- Ian Hamilton
- Charles Warren
- Edward Woodgate
- Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet
- Nevil Macready
- Arthur Reginald Hoskins
- Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein
- Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone
- Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes
- Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood
- George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon
- Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne
- Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson
- Martinus Theunis Steyn
- William Marshall
- Robert Kekewich
- Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson
- Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
- Frederick Carrington
- Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne
- Hector MacDonald