Second Boer War
October 11, 1899 – May 31, 1902 · South Africa (Kimberley and the Boer republics)
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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.
Sides
United Kingdom and allies
South African Republic and allies
Battles 9
- Siege of Mafeking October 13, 1899 – May 17, 1900
- Siege of Kimberley October 14, 1899 – February 15, 1900
- Siege of Ladysmith November 2, 1899 – February 28, 1900
- Battle of Magersfontein December 11, 1899
- Second Battle of Colenso December 15, 1899
- Battle of Spion Kop January 23–24, 1900
- Battle of Paardeberg February 18–27, 1900
- Battle of Diamond Hill June 11–12, 1900
- Battle of Bergendal August 21–27, 1900
Also involved 45
Winston Churchill
War correspondent; lieutenant, South African Light Horse · United Kingdom and allies
Hubert Gough
participant · United Kingdom and allies
William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Archibald Wavell
participant · United Kingdom and allies
John French
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet
participant · United Kingdom and allies
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Arthur Wauchope
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Edward Bulfin
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Philip Chetwode
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Horace Smith-Dorrien
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Edward Smith
participant
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
participant · United Kingdom and allies
William Pulteney
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Robert Brooke-Popham
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Archibald James Murray
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Charles Macpherson Dobell
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Herbert Lawrence
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Edward Chaytor
participant
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Bryan Mahon
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Piet Cronjé
participant
Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Andrew Wauchope
participant · United Kingdom and allies
George White
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Piet Joubert
participant
Christiaan de Wet
participant
Walter Braithwaite
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Aylmer Hunter-Weston
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Frederick Stopford
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Ian Hamilton
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Redvers Buller
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Charles Warren
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Edward Woodgate
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Schalk Willem Burger
participant
Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Nevil Macready
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Arthur Reginald Hoskins
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein
participant · United Kingdom and allies
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone
participant · United Kingdom and allies