The Second Boer War began in 1899 in the south of Africa. It was fought between the two Boer Republics and the British Empire. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to ...

In 1899, Canada agreed to send volunteers to serve under British command in the Boer War. (Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada C-007986, Montreal soldiers of C Company South African ...

Relentlessly, history rolls on and events that were once within reach of human memory can no longer be recalled.

Historically, ‘The Bittereinders’ (‘The Irreconcilables’ in English) were a faction of Afrikaner guerrilla fighters who ...

In the mid-1880s, Roscrea native Philip Hennessy – a veteran of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 – arrived in Nenagh with his wife ...

Britain only had a small, though well-trained regular army. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war ...

Journey back in time to a different age when the sun never set on the British Empire and her armies were great in number The Boer War 18991902 was a turning point in British military history and ...