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 ...

The treaty of Vereeniging confirmed British victory over the Boer republics after three years of war, and laid the foundations for the Union of South Africa. Notably, it still ignored the rights ...

The battle was a military engagement between British forces and two Boer Republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, during the campaign by the British to relieve the besieged ...