The Boers had a tradition. They would send their sons out hunting with two cartridges. At the end of the day, one of two conditions had to be met. Either he had to have both of those cartridges, or meat for the table. If he came back with only one cartridge & no meat, or even worse, no cartridge or meat, he got the turds beat out of him. It's not as brutal as it sounds. Ammunition was very expensive & they couldn't afford to waste it like that. Either way, you wonder why the Boers were picking off the British at long range? They were raised to make every shot count. Excellent video. Thank You
One thing most people don't realise is the international volunteers fighting on the side of the Boers. Richard Harding Davis in his book Notes of a War Correspondent on page 59 says that he and other correspondents stopped at Ventersburg at the Jones Hotel. The American scouts stopped there as well with their spurs jingling. Italians of Garibaldi's red shirted army, Swedes, Danes, Frenchmen, Germans with the sabre cuts on their cheeks given them at university, as well as Russian officers. They were not soldiers of fortune because there was no pay or gain. They adventerous liberty loving men.
Great video, the M95 Mauser used by the Boers was state of the art in 1899 being clip fed and shooting the 7mm round, it was not based off the Chilean model as you stated but actually based off the Spanish 1893 with the flat based bolt head.
Boers and Filipinos were using Mausers and Maxim Hiram machine guns vs Brits and American. After the war settled , the Yanks and Brits dumped their Gatlings , the Yanks dumped their Krags.
Thank you Sir, for recognising that we were already speaking Afrikaans then, although, it was not an official written language back then. You did a good job of stating fact, in a short concise form. Dankie, van ń Boer.
Thanks a lot for your series. It is greatly appreciated. My great grandfather and grandmother on my father's side both died in that war, and my great grandfather on my mothers side was a prisoner of war. Our families lost everything. It is worth noting that more than 20% of the population of the ZAR and the Orange Free State died in the war. It compares to major European wars in history. One correction though, it is the English War and not the Boer War. The English came here to take our land and kill our people, we didn't go there.
Not the Pretoria region. The gold was found in an area that was to become Johannesburg. The geology of Pretoria is very different from that of Johannesburg.
Something noteworthy. The Africans that was allies of the Boers, or lived on farms, was such a big threat that they supplied Boers with food and refuge, they were also put into concentration camps. The Africans that’s supported the British, was promised South Africa. We can say it’s them in charge today.
Of all Boer firearms I really like the look of Plezier Mauser - a sporting version of Mauser rifle, coming with decorated stock and fully or half-octagonal barrel. The ultimate hunting rifle of the era
@@SamuraiAkechi and on Revivaler there is a excellent. Bell article on Small bore versus large bore in pdf also . Most about his mausers stories is online . Books of both his and Corbett is online free .
I'm a Boer from Transvaal South Africa. As a matter of fact, I'm the great grandson of a Boer general which was a Cape rebel during the 2de Anglo Boer war which the british government started as you have said correctly. The peace agreement signed on 31 Mei 1902 was false,deceptive and misleading whereby the british government has change it strategy from military warfare to political warfare till today with their proxy anc with exactly the same enemy formation than back then. After the James raid, which was actually a coup the freemasonry roundtable has send their jewish agent, jan smuts to infiltrate uncle's Paul Kruger Volksraad. Jan smuts has work for cicel john rhodes and rhodes has work for the rothchild jews bankers which has funded the war. Smuts task was to cause friction and conflict between our Boers and the british government, run by the rothchild jews, which led to the declaration of war between our Boers and the british government, thereafter to use his influence among the Boer officers to sign the false, fraudulent, misleading and deceptive peace on 31 Mei 1902 in favor of the evil fraudulentl british government!
The main thing that gets missed in the second Boer war was the introduction of Australian Aboriginal trackers. They are incredible when it comes to tracking and were able to lead the British etc. to where the Boers were hiding disadvantaging the Boers that used the shoot and scoot in the first war as the trackers they used in the first were not as able. This made finding and eliminating guerilla groups highly likely as one cant easily evade Aboriginal trackers as they spot everything.
We still have a Lee Enfield produced in 1899 in the family. My great-great grandfather, P.J. Naude from the Winburg Kommando, picked it up after a battle and hid it, together with a few other, on the family farm during the war. He was sadly killed shortly thereafter at the Battle of Driefontein. The gun is still in a very good condition but was deactivated as the barrel was shot out by the late 90's. My family took many game using that particular rifle.
Why do you always bring that up. Your own Boer government surrendered unconditionally to the ANC, without even firing a shot sending thousands of you into squatter camps and thousands of farmers/family murdered. Yet you never mention that. Move on.
The 1896 mauser in 7x57mm , the 37 mm maxim was called the Pom pomp due to the sound it made when firering there were also some maxim belt fed machine guns in 303 caliber used by both sides
The two conflicts were quite alike. However, despite numerous initial successes against the invading American aggressors, one factor doomed the efforts of the Indios to secure their independence - the veteran officers and NCOs of the American forces. After only just recently vanquishing the remnants of rebellious native American tribes, these ruthless veterans were the worst sort of foe for the Indios of Philippines.
My great great grandfather was an Irishman who fought on the Boer side under Colonel MacBrides Irish volunteers....if i have the family word of mouth down right....am proud to say that i am proud of both my Irish and Boer mixed blood ....and if the prophecies of the Boer Prophet,Oom Seinaar van Rensburg is dead on accurate,the Boers will ride again...
can we just appreciate how f*cking tall the 2nd guy on the right is at 0:43? He makes his rifle look absolutely tiny. Everyone else has plenty of purchase left on their mausers, but his handguard is just consumed.
The civilians mentioned were: Woman and children. A British genocide that is ignored in today’s history. To the victors the spoils. They write the history.
My private studies are currently on everything within the times 1000ad until now, confined to this side of the Zambezi . Im battling to find new texts to read. All I have to say is of all of us alive whos ancestors passed through the conflicts of this continent on all sides , the inter tribal conflicts too, all of it, Im proud to be alive among you today. Everything could have gone badly wrong for every side is the impression overall that see.
My gra dfather had a mauser 7 mm feom the war era , it was confiscated by Jan Smuts government , he loved that wepon , by then it was used for hunting ,the war long gone, love your program ❤❤
I was a few months ago at the South African firearms collectors seminar that was around the Mauser. Some very rare Mausers were displayed, one being called the "Plessier" Mauser translated to the Pleasure Mauser that has an extremely unique hexagonal shape barrel. My father's great grandfather was a POW doing hard labor for the Rotchild dynasty in Sri Lanka due to being caught with a double barrel shotgun for self defense, as the Brits banned the Boer people of owning firearms leaving them at the mercy of Bantu raiders so he never fought in the war. If you are interested to find more details for your videos about SA firearm history, just let me know and I might be able to arrange someone from the SA rifle collectors club to give you some more in depth details on the subject. Great accurate video.
Though the miners were in the majority in Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand, they had no rights of self government. Kruger would not grant municipal status to Johannesburg or citizenship to the miners. Black Africans had no rights in SAR. Kruger was very stubborn. The British were determined to annex the SAR. On the eave of war Kruger made many concession, but in vain.
It was the Jewish masters wo used the British government and brave soldiers to fight the war for them so they could get their hands on the gold. Like so many other wars, no British soldier ever benifit out of this war. If the British soldier was killed he was sewed up in his blanked and buries. Before his family could get his settling up money the prise of the blanked was deducted from his outstanding pay.
The British weren’t actively killing civilians in their concentration camps more that negligence in their management allowed starvation and disease outbreaks to occur, still pretty bad though.
Do you care to elaborate on your Grannies experiences? If in fact British soldiers were killing civilians intentionally in your Grannny’s experience then that contradicts the narrative that history tells.
You have no idea how barbaric the British were to civilians . It wasn't fair what they did .. they could not get the Boers so they went for the women and children. That's why you will never win a rugby match against us.we are civilised
The Boers had a tradition. They would send their sons out hunting with two cartridges. At the end of the day, one of two conditions had to be met. Either he had to have both of those cartridges, or meat for the table. If he came back with only one cartridge & no meat, or even worse, no cartridge or meat, he got the turds beat out of him. It's not as brutal as it sounds. Ammunition was very expensive & they couldn't afford to waste it like that. Either way, you wonder why the Boers were picking off the British at long range? They were raised to make every shot count. Excellent video. Thank You
They were seriously tough bush camps those remote farms with all manner of hardships , disease & critters animal & 'human' & weather & isolation
And they were "born in the saddle" and knew how live of what the veld and bush offers: edibles AND medicinal.
@user-li1ji5qp9v Yes Sir. Tough SOBs.
Yea, I grew up on the Rez, my Dad did the same thing except he wanted a 6 pack of Bud also.
Urban legend about their shooting prowess and never proven, but their recognised tradition (ou tradisie) was humping the local African women.
One thing most people don't realise is the international volunteers fighting on the side of the Boers. Richard Harding Davis in his book Notes of a War Correspondent on page 59 says that he and other correspondents stopped at Ventersburg at the Jones Hotel. The American scouts stopped there as well with their spurs jingling. Italians of Garibaldi's red shirted army, Swedes, Danes, Frenchmen, Germans with the sabre cuts on their cheeks given them at university, as well as Russian officers. They were not soldiers of fortune because there was no pay or gain. They adventerous liberty loving men.
@@57WillysCJ and some of them were just pissed with England.
Great video, the M95 Mauser used by the Boers was state of the art in 1899 being clip fed and shooting the 7mm round, it was not based off the Chilean model as you stated but actually based off the Spanish 1893 with the flat based bolt head.
Boers and Filipinos were using Mausers and Maxim Hiram machine guns vs Brits and American. After the war settled , the Yanks and Brits dumped their Gatlings , the Yanks dumped their Krags.
Filipino troops armed with M93 Mausers were an issue for US troops in the Filipino-American War.
@@robertotamesis1783the British already had Maxims and were using them at this point they were literally the first military to adopt them lol what
Thank you Sir, for recognising that we were already speaking Afrikaans then, although, it was not an official written language back then. You did a good job of stating fact, in a short concise form.
Dankie, van ń Boer.
Thanks a lot for your series. It is greatly appreciated. My great grandfather and grandmother on my father's side both died in that war, and my great grandfather on my mothers side was a prisoner of war. Our families lost everything.
It is worth noting that more than 20% of the population of the ZAR and the Orange Free State died in the war. It compares to major European wars in history.
One correction though, it is the English War and not the Boer War. The English came here to take our land and kill our people, we didn't go there.
Great video. Kudos on your presentation of the historical background as well as on your pronunciation of the afrikaans words.
Not the Pretoria region. The gold was found in an area that was to become Johannesburg. The geology of Pretoria is very different from that of Johannesburg.
Something noteworthy.
The Africans that was allies of the Boers, or lived on farms, was such a big threat that they supplied Boers with food and refuge, they were also put into concentration camps.
The Africans that’s supported the British, was promised South Africa. We can say it’s them in charge today.
Of all Boer firearms I really like the look of Plezier Mauser - a sporting version of Mauser rifle, coming with decorated stock and fully or half-octagonal barrel. The ultimate hunting rifle of the era
Richard Venola wrote a good article about the Plezier , it’s to find online .
@@MrPh30 I've read a couple of articles on preWWI hunting Mausers and it's always good to know that there's more to read. Thanks.
@@SamuraiAkechi and on Revivaler there is a excellent. Bell article on Small bore versus large bore in pdf also . Most about his mausers stories is online . Books of both his and Corbett is online free .
@@MrPh30 I've already finished Maneaters... and Leopard of Rudraprayag. Anyway thanks for suggestions.
Good video a thoroughly researched piece of work.
I'm a Boer from Transvaal South Africa. As a matter of fact, I'm the great grandson of a Boer general which was a Cape rebel during the 2de Anglo Boer war which the british government started as you have said correctly. The peace agreement signed on 31 Mei 1902 was false,deceptive and misleading whereby the british government has change it strategy from military warfare to political warfare till today with their proxy anc with exactly the same enemy formation than back then.
After the James raid, which was actually a coup the freemasonry roundtable has send their jewish agent, jan smuts to infiltrate uncle's Paul Kruger Volksraad. Jan smuts has work for cicel john rhodes and rhodes has work for the rothchild jews bankers which has funded the war. Smuts task was to cause friction and conflict between our Boers and the british government, run by the rothchild jews, which led to the declaration of war between our Boers and the british government, thereafter to use his influence among the Boer officers to sign the false, fraudulent, misleading and deceptive peace on 31 Mei 1902 in favor of the evil fraudulentl british government!
You put 122 years of history in a paragraph. Moi!
You know that Jannie fought on the boer side, led a commando into the Northern Cape, captured the town of Springbok etc?
Smuts was a traitor & so was FW de Klerk in later years !
@ludwigmyburgh6054 Jy is ń idioot
Very interesting Very well put together
Well done! There's an old Boer saying from the day, "Vertroue in God en die Mauser." - "Trust in God and the Mauser" - works for me boet!
Good documentary. We also had a small number of Krag-Jorgensen rifles.
I thought that was very well done, thank you. I've sub'd.
keep this series coming please very interesting
The main thing that gets missed in the second Boer war was the introduction of Australian Aboriginal trackers. They are incredible when it comes to tracking and were able to lead the British etc. to where the Boers were hiding disadvantaging the Boers that used the shoot and scoot in the first war as the trackers they used in the first were not as able. This made finding and eliminating guerilla groups highly likely as one cant easily evade Aboriginal trackers as they spot everything.
Never heard about that
i did'nt know that !
Them darn Aboriginals . Like sniffer dogs at a customs shed
We still have a Lee Enfield produced in 1899 in the family. My great-great grandfather, P.J. Naude from the Winburg Kommando, picked it up after a battle and hid it, together with a few other, on the family farm during the war. He was sadly killed shortly thereafter at the Battle of Driefontein. The gun is still in a very good condition but was deactivated as the barrel was shot out by the late 90's. My family took many game using that particular rifle.
Thank you for mentioning the atrocities in the concentration camps.
Why do you always bring that up. Your own Boer government surrendered unconditionally to the ANC, without even firing a shot sending thousands of you into squatter camps and thousands of farmers/family murdered. Yet you never mention that. Move on.
... so many dead c i v i l i a n s !
The 1896 mauser in 7x57mm , the 37 mm maxim was called the Pom pomp due to the sound it made when firering there were also some maxim belt fed machine guns in 303 caliber used by both sides
M/96 is the Swedish Mauser, chambered in 6.5SE.
and at the same time, the Philippine-American War is considered the Vietnam war for the USA during the late 19th and early 20th century
The two conflicts were quite alike. However, despite numerous initial successes against the invading American aggressors, one factor doomed the efforts of the Indios to secure their independence - the veteran officers and NCOs of the American forces. After only just recently vanquishing the remnants of rebellious native American tribes, these ruthless veterans were the worst sort of foe for the Indios of Philippines.
My great great grandfather was an Irishman who fought on the Boer side under Colonel MacBrides Irish volunteers....if i have the family word of mouth down right....am proud to say that i am proud of both my Irish and Boer mixed blood ....and if the prophecies of the Boer Prophet,Oom Seinaar van Rensburg is dead on accurate,the Boers will ride again...
...excellent video...good information!!!😀
can we just appreciate how f*cking tall the 2nd guy on the right is at 0:43? He makes his rifle look absolutely tiny. Everyone else has plenty of purchase left on their mausers, but his handguard is just consumed.
I'm sure his descendants now beat the British in rugby, playing at lock...
Dutch blood, nation with the tallest people on earth.
Thanks
Excellent video. Thank You, perfectly narrated very close to 100% accurate, I enjoyed! Give us more, from South Africa.
Do you realize he's a Black American?
The civilians mentioned were:
Woman and children. A British genocide that is ignored in today’s history.
To the victors the spoils. They write the history.
Could you make a video about peshmarga army weapons
The best book by far on the Boer rifles og the Boer War is by Ron Bester
Please make a Video about the Balkan Wars (1912-1913).
You can still find martini henry shells in the velds and trenches in places like lydenberg
My private studies are currently on everything within the times 1000ad until now, confined to this side of the Zambezi .
Im battling to find new texts to read.
All I have to say is of all of us alive whos ancestors passed through the conflicts of this continent on all sides , the inter tribal conflicts too, all of it, Im proud to be alive among you today.
Everything could have gone badly wrong for every side is the impression overall that see.
The Philippines and The Boer South Africa share our struggle vs USA and Uk.
Interesting, I did not know that, thank you for sharing, from a Boer in South Africa.
U.S liberated and has zero control over the Filipinos so that’s no
@@MattP-lb5npwhen you have zero knowledge of high school level history
I like the 7 mm Mauser, rifle and cartridge!
What revolvers did the Boers use?
The Mauser is my favorite.
At the 2 minute point; is that an Abbot Downing stage coach? I think some of them were sold to southern Africa.
No way I'm lstening to that voice for 10 minutes
You forgot about the handguns.
There's also the British use of hot air balloons during the war
Boers were done dirty
This is NOT about politics....Domkop !!
You forgot that the Boers had the some Norwegian Krag Jorgensen during the war too
Dankie bra ek het hom geniet (it is in Afriekaans)
Condensed , info , Fat free , Next stop , Africa’s, diamond , farmers,
You missed out on a cool gun. The pistols that Boer officers wore, the Mauser C96 Broomhandle Pistol
Men taketh politicians taketh away.
THE DUTCH ARE WITHOUT DOUBT SOME OF BEST EUROPEANS. I WISH I COULD HAVE SAID SO ABOUT THE CORRUPTED SWEDES.
My gra dfather had a mauser 7 mm feom the war era , it was confiscated by Jan Smuts government , he loved that wepon , by then it was used for hunting ,the war long gone, love your program ❤❤
Woohoo. Vreiheidsooroë
lol ENGLAND IS PAYING FOR THERE SINS NOW ARENT THAY 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Not as bad as South Africa is!
The Mauser 7 x 57
I'm shocked they had an autocannon in 37mm.
I was a few months ago at the South African firearms collectors seminar that was around the Mauser. Some very rare Mausers were displayed, one being called the "Plessier" Mauser translated to the Pleasure Mauser that has an extremely unique hexagonal shape barrel. My father's great grandfather was a POW doing hard labor for the Rotchild dynasty in Sri Lanka due to being caught with a double barrel shotgun for self defense, as the Brits banned the Boer people of owning firearms leaving them at the mercy of Bantu raiders so he never fought in the war. If you are interested to find more details for your videos about SA firearm history, just let me know and I might be able to arrange someone from the SA rifle collectors club to give you some more in depth details on the subject. Great accurate video.
6,8 mm Boers Mauser?
Though the miners were in the majority in Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand, they had no rights of self government. Kruger would not grant municipal status to Johannesburg or citizenship to the miners. Black Africans had no rights in SAR. Kruger was very stubborn. The British were determined to annex the SAR. On the eave of war Kruger made many concession, but in vain.
The Boer's took it to the British for being mostly a untrained military.
Ok. You obviously dont know sfa
It was largely British miners who created the mines in South African Republic (SAR), and created the wealth which financed the SAR.
..yeah?...and that gave the UK the right to invade, pillage the countryside and use concentration camps to break the spirit of the Boers?
It was the Jewish masters wo used the British government and brave soldiers to fight the war for them so they could get their hands on the gold.
Like so many other wars, no British soldier ever benifit out of this war.
If the British soldier was killed he was sewed up in his blanked and buries. Before his family could get his settling up money the prise of the blanked was deducted from his outstanding pay.
The British weren’t actively killing civilians in their concentration camps more that negligence in their management allowed starvation and disease outbreaks to occur, still pretty bad though.
Mmmm, as per my Granny, you are incorrect, and who will I tend to believe, you, or a person that was in the camps?
Do you care to elaborate on your Grannies experiences? If in fact British soldiers were killing civilians intentionally in your Grannny’s experience then that contradicts the narrative that history tells.
You have no idea how barbaric the British were to civilians . It wasn't fair what they did .. they could not get the Boers so they went for the women and children. That's why you will never win a rugby match against us.we are civilised
The boers were super racist (black slang still uses the word mbhuru for a racist person) and your sequence of and adherence to facts is dodgy.
You are wrong. The word Mbhuru is just an African slang word for Boer And Boer (Afrikaans word) translate to Farmer.
The Boers were never even close to racism as that of the Brutal, Inhuman Racism of the english empire and that of the USA!!!!!
evilekemp-iq4yy='True 'Verraier'!
We own a martini henry call. 577/.450 date on cert 1889.
@jmantime, thanks for putting a few things straight!!