I knew Boer meant farmer, but I had thought the Boers were originally a very religious group. Was I wrong about that? The narrator didn't mention religion at all. I also didn't realize that they kept slaves. So is that true? The Boers enslaved people?
@@_Thoughtful_Aquarius_ Boers are very religious but that had nothing to do with the war. As for slavery, the slaves were bought from warring tribes that enslaved prisoners but you could say that's equally as bad. Remember the groot trek happened (I'm not sure about this) right after the crushing meaning many tribes were enslaved by other migrating tribes.
@John Licon There would be no South Africa as we know it though. Transvaal and Orange Free State would probably unify for defense, cultural simulaties and cape colony would be ceded to the "Boere Republiek". I have no idea what would happen afterwards with the world wars etc.
@John Licon Depending on who you ask there's already a genocide going on against white farmers. Some claim it's targeted and others say that the countries' murder rate is so high that it's difficult to tell. Also the small villages that do their own thing are prone to inbreeding so if they continue being isolationists they'll cripple themselves. But things aren't all bad. After decades of political stagnation there's change happening.
The American revolution is what inspired these tactics so basically we can thank Native Americans for modern guerrilla warfare, not Boers in the 1800's. The Brits had been attacked like that for years at that point, probably all the way back to the French Indian war
It's important to remember that breach-loading rifles were a relatively new innovation. It's mostly understandable that tactical commanders weren't prepared to deal with it. (Though certain battles of the U.S. Civil War could've clued them in)
I literally have an essay about the British Empire’s expansion in India and Africa (including this) due tomorrow and you sir are just begging to be cited
@@officialbindersurfingchann7653 I'm not saying the video is wrong. I knew nothing about the first Boer war and I learnt a lot from the video but no academic would accept a UA-cam video as a historical source.
Don't cite a tertiary (if even that) source without any citations of its own. This channel is cool and interesting, but the fact that he doesn't cite his sources anywhere is a serious problem.
The Boers didn't have nobles. The 'burger' class basically included all Boers, and even uitlanders were planned to become Burgers after a set amount of time.
Correct. They consisted almost entirely of frontiersmen and farmers, very much like those from the American Wild West. So basically they were a nation of cowboys 🤠
@Grote Scheiße 'Citizen' is a better translation, especially considering how militaristic Afrikaner society was with every citizen being a soldier. In that sense, there was little boundary between 'civilian' and 'soldier', with all citizens being members of the military essentially.
True - Kruger adopted a two-class system of 'New Burghers' (Uitlanders) and 'Old Burghers' (Transvaalers). Uitlander enfranchisement would of course be the pretext for the British ultimatum at Bloemfontein in 1899, although Kruger, breaking from his usual stubborn demeanor, offered a package of measures that went beyond British demands, provided they surrender their claim to suzerainty (I'm sure you can guess how that was received). I would recommend Martin Meredith's 'Gold, Diamonds & War' which explores most of 19th-Century South African history - it's a great read!
My Great-Grandmother's 1st husband was a veteran of the 2nd boer war and fought in the first world war too. Most people overlook both of the boer wars, but the first one a lot more than the second...
@@MrJimheeren Hey Jim did mommy drop you on your soft head as a baby? Slavery was explicitly forbidden in the Constitutions of both of two the largest and most enduring Boer Republics, although you are probably right about the religious zealotry thing.
@@MrJimheeren If you want to get technical skippy : the British forced 120,000 Blacks into worker camps during the second Boer War and forced them to build railways and blockhouses (textbook definition of slavery)- seems like your people were the last slaveholders in S-Africa
@@MrJimheeren and the British killed forty thousand women and children in concentration camps :). Don't pretend this was anything other than a imperialist conquest
Hey,fan from republic of Georgia here. Interesting fact:a nobleman from my country Niko Bagrationi fought in second boer war as he viewed it as a war for independence.(Georgia was annexed by russia at that time) I read his memoirs,quite fascinating.He described boers as a fierce warriors battling to the very end, but british might was far too overwhelming and defeat inevitable.
@@wackypacky6917 He would have to juggle with the Poles blaming the Ukrainians for committing a genocide against them (which I mean, they did. Shukhevych and Lebed talked extensively about exterminating the "Polish element" from a pure Ukraine. How can talk like that not be signaling genocide?) and the Ukrainians blaming the Poles for constantly occupying and annexing the Ukraine repeatedly throughout history, and for the forced Polonization in the region during the 1920s and 1930s. In the end, both sides are gonna get pissed.
As descendant of sarel johannes eloff, who was the acting commanding general for the transvaal army during this war, his sister had married paul kruger other brother was a sculptor known as an old master, making busts for the likes of de la rey, siener van rensburg the presidents steyn, Kruger and was best friends with pierneef, im damn proud to be a direct descendent of these heroic people
Almost 300 Russians also fought on the Boer side in the first year of the war. As well as many others from different countries, some serving until the end of the war in the medical core.
Thank you for talking about this conflict as i have an ancestor (i forgot whos grandparent he was) who fought in both boer wars and continued to fight the british in sa after the 2nd boer war as a rebel and was then imprisoned
The British are basically what happens when a kid with MAX trauma (the fact the britons has been invaded and taken over by basically every other European culture ) Grows up without therapy near constant war ✅ superiority complex ✅ Inferiority complex ✅ (British humor often has them mocking themselves) Abusive and harsh treatment of Neighbors ✅ (Ireland and scotland and kinda wales) Difficulty to work with others ✅ (Brexit) and the list goes on
Love all the videos in africa. Cool cool. One detail though: the expansions that led to depopulation are known as the ‘mfecane’ and were not really _led_ by Shaka Zulu. They were the result of various Ngoni groups using Zulu tactics in campaigns of expansion, and they pushed out and destroyed many Tswana city states and i think even some Shona ones.
Even that I'd argue with. It was around the same time that there was a lot of migration and resettlement by Nguni people across Southern Africa, and Shaka both a product of his time, and producer of it.
The Shona were not immune, and there are reports that the effects of the imfacane being felt all the way in Zambia and into Moçambique. Depopulation though is a strong word - internal displacement, certainly, as when things began to stabilise, local Africans began to return to the lands they had fled from.
The British treated us Boers as second class citizens. we were poor, Hence, today its in our culture that Boers tend to walked barefoot, especially children, walk "Kaalvoet" or as youd say Barefoot, then they Boers turned to Voortrekkers and moved to live on our own.
Great war movie. Check out "Young Winston" another good movie. It depicts the time Winston Churchill was captured by the Boers when his armoured train was ambushed. It also depicts the Battle of Omdurman 1898 and Winston's time serving in India. Simon Ward plays Winston Churchill and looks very like him. Check out "Zulu Dawn" which depicts the Battle of Isandlawana during the Anglo-Zulu War. Great movie starring Simon Ward ,Peter O' Toole and Burt Lancaster.
They crept up the hill. I have once tried to get up Majuba “Hill” (its actually part of a mountain range ) to go see the monument on top.I was told it was an easy route so did not take anything with me. I got 2/3 of the way up and decided to not go further. That made me think that either those guys where very angry,completely insane or was maybe smoking something stronger than normal tobacco or maybe all of it.
Love seeing South African history! If you ever get the opportunity, do some research/reading on some other historical events here that shaped the country we have today. one important one is the Mfecane (from the Zulu perspective) in which many native tribes and peoples were forced to relocate by the Zulu which created a power/occupation vacuum into which the Boer's trekked and established the republics. it's also interesting to note, Afrikaans has more in similar with Flemish than Dutch, however i think that's incidental. Also we pronounce the word 'Boer' with a 'oo' sound as in 'book'.
@Sherri T[A]P Me!! To Have [S]EX With Me It's a method of warfare practiced since ancient times against the likes of the Romans, persians, etc. Nothing new, TBH. They also tried fighting conventionally... Failed miserably in the end. Guerilla warfare exists for a reason, have to agree on that.
2:24 Now wait just a minute! I believe you skipped over a few details, dude just how does that small Cape outpost legally become that whole vast red area!? Perfidious Anglo strikes again?
The objective in every war is to get the enemy to a point where they can not or want not continue to fight. The enemy deciding continuing the war is not worth is is a regular victory.
I was hoping for that sometime soon as well. Love that conflict, lots of proxy support with that one, also, Cuba beat South Africa and that's really awesome to comprehend.
Excellent narrative, thanks. (from a Boer descendant haha). BTW...the main reason for the Boers trekking away from the Cape Colony was not necessary because of the abolishment of slavery...The Boers had no slave system in their new republics...
It's funny how nowadays, people will claim ulterior motives for war ("must be oil!")... but back then, Britain was openly like *" HELL YEAH! They got diamonds? War. They got tea? War. They got spices? War. They got gold? War."* They didn't give a shit lol. Basically if any area anywhere in the world had something exploitable, damn right they were going to war to get some too 😂
Hello, I am currently writing a proposal for my paper about the first Boer War, and I must say your video is very clear in narrating the events that took place. I am wondering, however, if you are able to provide links to the books / articles you have used as sources in making this video?
Other than the natalia republic's ginormous border, really good. Pretty accurate and strikes at the heart of the conflict. Incidently the gold rush made the Transvaal financially stable, but geopolitically vulnerable.
You rarely get to hear about the history of the Boer people. Usually they are only mentioned to in terms of apartheid without context. This episode gives a great and detailed history that is being lost.
South African here, thanks for the great summation! Would be interesting to see a multi part series of the second boer war! Perhaps with a little more focus on the Zulu's, the legendary king Langalibalele of the amaHlubi and such. Its such an important and devestating conflict in our history as it paved the way for Apartheid and much of the hatred our country grapples with today. Also to pronounce 'Boer' try 'BOO (as in Boot) + ER (same as the end of farmER) ' in afrikaans those vowels don't really mix as a single sound as they do in English but rather as two immediate vowel sounds, rather than 'bore'. It's tricky and this isn't me attacking in anyway! Just want to help out.
I've been seeing so much bad news coming from S.Africa these days. Is it really that bad? Like regular murders and rapes against white landowners in the countryside by lawless black supremacists? I'm not being racist, but that's how the news I see all the time portrays it.
That how my father used to pronounce English ( he had grown up in Johannesburg) I have only one question , you use the " re " the same way we Greeks do?
Some videos about Indonesia would be interesting such as: 1. Indonesian Invasion and Independence of East Timor 2. 11/30 Coup and the subsequent 1965-1966 Massacre 3. Indonesian National Revolution (including the mass killing of royalties in the western region) 4. Aceh Insurgence: The Rise and The Fall of Free Aceh Movement (GAM) 5. The Ongoing conflict in West Papua
Harvey Martinez I don’t want to. However with the high crimes rates and hardly any work, leaving would be nice. It’s just impossible to leave unless you are very rich or have another citizenship. I would like to go and live in northern England where my ancestors came from. My family been in South Africa for 199 years and my last ancestor who was not from RSA came in 1904. I don’t think I’ll leave anytime soon
I have Boer ancestry on my mum's side. They changed the spelling of their surname to Bor in response to the anti-Dutch sentiments that came up during the fighting.
@@norfangl3480 you mean the u sound as the I sound in bird? Becouse then, no. It's the oo in oof. Or the oo in boo. Or the oo in loo. Or the oe in shoe
@@norfangl3480 it's a spanish r. The one that you roll on your tounge. The English language has a very rare and hard to prenounce r. You can also just use Google translate.
The British Empire was armed primarily with Martini-Henrys. While a reasonable weapon, one of the best military arms of the day, the Boer had an absolute advantage. Boer kommandos had a vast array of rifles including Martini-Henrys, Mauser Gewehr 71s, Chassepots, Spencer carbines, Henry (and subsequent Winchester) carbines among many other weapons. While the Martini-Henrys, Chassepots, and Gewehr 71s offered big, hard hitting rounds over distance, the real advantage and the feature which made cover fire so available for the Boers was within the repeater carbines. The rate of fire offered by the lighter shooting Henry's, Winchesters and Spencers allowed accurate, fast shots giving the rest of the Boer riflemen relative safety when taking position. Furthermore, Boers had to be accurate marksmen to survive. Whether they were hunting for food or shooting to stop an angry lion or hippo, a Boer had to be a master of his weapon, even today many young South Africans learn to shoot well. By comparison, the British regulars were not highly trained marksmen, they were expected to perform to order against opposing ranks of men. Holding an individual at distance was not a speciality among British troops although some were apt marksmen. A further understanding of the land and unconventional yet now modern tactics gave the Boer kommandos a great advantage against an army who even marching into WW1 would carry the old volley tactic.
Amazing comment. This what I was thinking as I was reading about similiar experiences by Russians fighting in Caucasus. This lead to more focus on dragoon/sharpshooter regiments to get that flexibility needed.
Singapore, Isandlwana, Gallipoli,, the First Afghan War, Hastings... the list is very long, but nowhere near as long as the list of their triumphs. That's how they gained the biggest empire in world history..
The size of the Dutch The spirit of the Irish The bravery of the Scotts The passion of the French The precision of the Germans... Kind of like they were bred to be the ultimate soldiers?
Ultimate soldier also excel at close combat and hand to hand fight something the boers sucked at but the british didn't. Also those ethnics you mentioned well the british have beaten every single one of them. Just ask which language is official in ireland today or lingua franca of the world. They beat the french in north america,the germans in ww1 and dutch in africa. Not to mention the scotts and irish who literally ended up serving them.
a group of people started building up a landmass and then another group said "there is gold in their house, we should break in, kill them and keep it for ourselves" the british were nikkers and the boer were defending their homes.
I wish people wouldn't call it the "Transvaal republic" it was called "The South African Republic" or Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek to give it it's proper name.
All this talk about horses and guns makes me want Red Dead Redemption: South Africa
Mr Nice Guy they would have to make a new game as rdr is about the Wild West or well the not so wild west but i do think that would be a good game.
This could be unironically really cool
If you like Rockstar games you might love South Africa, it's GTA IRL
Mergan Naidoo lol
@@JohnSmith3x911s Red Dead Australia is also a great idea
As a South African, thanks for finally talking about the boer war.
Yeah we don't even get taught the first war in school.
I knew Boer meant farmer, but I had thought the Boers were originally a very religious group. Was I wrong about that? The narrator didn't mention religion at all.
I also didn't realize that they kept slaves. So is that true? The Boers enslaved people?
@@_Thoughtful_Aquarius_ Boers are very religious but that had nothing to do with the war.
As for slavery, the slaves were bought from warring tribes that enslaved prisoners but you could say that's equally as bad. Remember the groot trek happened (I'm not sure about this) right after the crushing meaning many tribes were enslaved by other migrating tribes.
@John Licon There would be no South Africa as we know it though. Transvaal and Orange Free State would probably unify for defense, cultural simulaties and cape colony would be ceded to the "Boere Republiek". I have no idea what would happen afterwards with the world wars etc.
@John Licon Depending on who you ask there's already a genocide going on against white farmers. Some claim it's targeted and others say that the countries' murder rate is so high that it's difficult to tell.
Also the small villages that do their own thing are prone to inbreeding so if they continue being isolationists they'll cripple themselves.
But things aren't all bad. After decades of political stagnation there's change happening.
Winston Churchill: The Prequel Trilogy
Further proof of how much of a badass ol' Churchie was.
@@mysticnovelbro galipoli
Chelmsford The NovelBro Idk man the British then proceeded to abuse the boers pretty hard, makes me dislike Churchill tbh
@@jamesstewart3856 and the british won the second boer war because they sent captured boer woman and children to concetration camp
@@jamesstewart3856 Churchill was a Boer POW
Your opinion is invalid
I feel like the Boer's tactics of maneuver and unconventional warfare were well ahead of their times.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commando
The tactics inspired the later Irish Republican Army in the Irish War of independence
The American revolution is what inspired these tactics so basically we can thank Native Americans for modern guerrilla warfare, not Boers in the 1800's. The Brits had been attacked like that for years at that point, probably all the way back to the French Indian war
They invented the tactics dude
Actually the United States used these tactics against the British long before the Dutch during the American Revolution.
Last time I was this early Carthage was salt free
Name checks out, would you like me to sacrifice some children for you?
@@crusader7659 Sacrifice some anti vaxx kids they're gonna die anyways.
Dope name and comment
That's a good one
Hoàng Nguyên Duh, everyone knows it was the aliens
The last time this channel posted a video feels like ancient history
You mean Yonks B.C
A war with a second one: *Exists*
Feature History: *ooo goody more content*
Boers: Proper hunters
British: "They can't hit us if we ride on animals"
British: *Gets hit*
British: D:
It's important to remember that breach-loading rifles were a relatively new innovation. It's mostly understandable that tactical commanders weren't prepared to deal with it. (Though certain battles of the U.S. Civil War could've clued them in)
@@jeffbenton6183 Cool, didn't know about that! Must've been quite the horror for the British line infantry.
British: Proper colonists
Boers: Create rich African country right next to British territory
Boers: [Get absorbed]
Boers: D:
@@thekillers1stfan you literally ignored the whole first part of this video
@@farmerboy9029 I'm predicting the future bitch
Can’t wait for the second Boer war
Cant wait for the third Boer war
And the Rhodesian Bush War :DDD
@@aloadofbollocks988 based
@White Brad Bad Jy's my nuwe Banglobull
Dude you missed, happened like a century ago :/
Boers: "You can't colonize us! We're white!"
British: "Lol, you think that would stops us?"
and then they f***ed it up
Lol Napoleon Bonaparte wants a word with you as he ruled(colonized) alot of Europe
Lolz
@@nqobilengema2165 wrong
@@kingjoe3rd oh my the period of 1804 to 1814 just didn't exist...
I literally have an essay about the British Empire’s expansion in India and Africa (including this) due tomorrow and you sir are just begging to be cited
Maybe citing a UA-camr is not the best of ideas...just maybe...
@@warbler1984 why?
@@officialbindersurfingchann7653 I'm not saying the video is wrong. I knew nothing about the first Boer war and I learnt a lot from the video but no academic would accept a UA-cam video as a historical source.
@@officialbindersurfingchann7653 Are you serious?
Don't cite a tertiary (if even that) source without any citations of its own. This channel is cool and interesting, but the fact that he doesn't cite his sources anywhere is a serious problem.
When the hills start speaking Afrikaans
im not even white and i understood this guy's joke
@janis vogel Same concept as when the trees start speaking Vietnamese. It's a reference to the way guerilla warfare is waged.
@janis vogel You're being sarcastic, right? Good troll, haha.
*THE NEW ORDER: THE LAST DAYS OF EUROPE INTENSIFIES*
janis vogel dis deel van n meme
See you guys in a few months
*waves*
Hola
It’s been 12 months or more
I have a math exam tomorrow which is worth 45% of my overall mark but guess I'll just watch this instead.
Me with an essay on a book I havent read yet!
Hey same , have a 3 day written paper exam starting tomorrow. Good luck by the way.
Med school exam tomorrow
10 percent of my politics one is in 9 hours
Had an exam today... save this video for tomorrow and hit the books!
The Boers didn't have nobles. The 'burger' class basically included all Boers, and even uitlanders were planned to become Burgers after a set amount of time.
Correct. They consisted almost entirely of frontiersmen and farmers, very much like those from the American Wild West. So basically they were a nation of cowboys 🤠
@Grote Scheiße 'Citizen' is a better translation, especially considering how militaristic Afrikaner society was with every citizen being a soldier. In that sense, there was little boundary between 'civilian' and 'soldier', with all citizens being members of the military essentially.
True - Kruger adopted a two-class system of 'New Burghers' (Uitlanders) and 'Old Burghers' (Transvaalers). Uitlander enfranchisement would of course be the pretext for the British ultimatum at Bloemfontein in 1899, although Kruger, breaking from his usual stubborn demeanor, offered a package of measures that went beyond British demands, provided they surrender their claim to suzerainty (I'm sure you can guess how that was received).
I would recommend Martin Meredith's 'Gold, Diamonds & War' which explores most of 19th-Century South African history - it's a great read!
Lol we don't even get taught the First Boer War in history class in South Africa, only the second.
My Great-Grandmother's 1st husband was a veteran of the 2nd boer war and fought in the first world war too. Most people overlook both of the boer wars, but the first one a lot more than the second...
Because it was small and insignificant.
The Boers were certainly ahead of their time tactically, weren't they.
They where also a bunch of overly religious zealots and slave holders. But yes they could most certainly fight
@@MrJimheeren Hey Jim did mommy drop you on your soft head as a baby? Slavery was explicitly forbidden in the Constitutions of both of two the largest and most enduring Boer Republics, although you are probably right about the religious zealotry thing.
@@MrJimheeren If you want to get technical skippy : the British forced 120,000 Blacks into worker camps during the second Boer War and forced them to build railways
and blockhouses (textbook definition of slavery)- seems like your people were the last slaveholders in S-Africa
@@MrJimheeren and the British killed forty thousand women and children in concentration camps :). Don't pretend this was anything other than a imperialist conquest
@@MrJimheerenbased
Hey,fan from republic of Georgia here.
Interesting fact:a nobleman from my country Niko Bagrationi fought in second boer war as he viewed it as a war for independence.(Georgia was annexed by russia at that time)
I read his memoirs,quite fascinating.He described boers as a fierce warriors battling to the very end, but british might was far too overwhelming and defeat inevitable.
Hi "Lego Pants", can you send me a link to find his memoirs? Thank you.
@@willowncfom8228 That sucks
In the natal there are a lot of farms that are owned by the decendants of those warriors
Can you do somthing on Czechoslovak legion or the UPA
I agree
While not the same, Kings and Generals has done a great minidocumentary on the Czeckoslovak Legion
If he does the UPA, expect the comment section to turn how it did in the Yugoslavia ones: Absolute chaos
@@ultraslav9313 Indeed: Thats half the fun. I would also like to see him handle its pros and cons
@@wackypacky6917 He would have to juggle with the Poles blaming the Ukrainians for committing a genocide against them (which I mean, they did. Shukhevych and Lebed talked extensively about exterminating the "Polish element" from a pure Ukraine. How can talk like that not be signaling genocide?) and the Ukrainians blaming the Poles for constantly occupying and annexing the Ukraine repeatedly throughout history, and for the forced Polonization in the region during the 1920s and 1930s. In the end, both sides are gonna get pissed.
AFRIKAANS REEEEEEE
Ne reeeeeeee! 😂
@@Lankyblankman δεν κατάλαβα χριστό όμως 🤔
Pigeon Dutch, Nai?
@White Brad Bad now am starting to be worried 👽
@White Brad Bad shit I just Google it 🤣
Can’t wait for you to talk about the second Boer war. The comment section will start a third Boer war
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
As descendant of sarel johannes eloff, who was the acting commanding general for the transvaal army during this war, his sister had married paul kruger other brother was a sculptor known as an old master, making busts for the likes of de la rey, siener van rensburg the presidents steyn, Kruger and was best friends with pierneef, im damn proud to be a direct descendent of these heroic people
Fun fact : a Georgian with king ancestry fought in the second Boer war
Tell me more ?
Is this related to the Napoleon ancestor?
Almost 300 Russians also fought on the Boer side in the first year of the war. As well as many others from different countries, some serving until the end of the war in the medical core.
Thank you for talking about this conflict as i have an ancestor (i forgot whos grandparent he was) who fought in both boer wars and continued to fight the british in sa after the 2nd boer war as a rebel and was then imprisoned
as an artist with some work in illustrator i think yall gotta appreciate the illustration work done for these videos. quality work!
Most of what you see is historical drawings
The eternal Anglo strikes again
Sadly yes
The (British) Empire Strikes Back
The British are basically what happens when a kid with MAX trauma (the fact the britons has been invaded and taken over by basically every other European culture ) Grows up without therapy
near constant war ✅
superiority complex ✅
Inferiority complex ✅ (British humor often has them mocking themselves)
Abusive and harsh treatment of Neighbors ✅ (Ireland and scotland and kinda wales)
Difficulty to work with others ✅ (Brexit)
and the list goes on
The damned Anglo's beady eyes staring at me from the dark.
“The Anglo is the Jew of the west”
As a kid, I used to think this was the Boar war, as in boars 🐗, as in a bunch of brits went off to fight tusky pigs .
Me too, actually.
As an actual Boer/Afrikaner, I think you may be excused for thinking that 😂
Love all the videos in africa. Cool cool. One detail though: the expansions that led to depopulation are known as the ‘mfecane’ and were not really _led_ by Shaka Zulu. They were the result of various Ngoni groups using Zulu tactics in campaigns of expansion, and they pushed out and destroyed many Tswana city states and i think even some Shona ones.
It original started with Shaka but as groups fled they used similar tactics on other groups causing them to flee and repeat
Even that I'd argue with. It was around the same time that there was a lot of migration and resettlement by Nguni people across Southern Africa, and Shaka both a product of his time, and producer of it.
The Shona were not immune, and there are reports that the effects of the imfacane being felt all the way in Zambia and into Moçambique. Depopulation though is a strong word - internal displacement, certainly, as when things began to stabilise, local Africans began to return to the lands they had fled from.
@@stefanvanveenendaal5741 ngumi people where in South Africa way longer than that
The Dutch: "interessant"
*cries in New Amsterdam*
Sooo does this mean theres a chance for a piece on the Rhodesian Bush War?
Orange and Transvaal are my favorite country to play in Victoria2. Diamonds!
Boers: we will fight for our land
British: Our land!
Natives: bruh...
The British treated us Boers as second class citizens. we were poor, Hence, today its in our culture that Boers tend to walked barefoot, especially children, walk "Kaalvoet" or as youd say Barefoot, then they Boers turned to Voortrekkers and moved to live on our own.
I didn't know that there was a first Boer war... I suppose the existence of a second Boer war should have tipped me off.
I love it when a Feature History pops up.
There's a movie called breaker morant based on an australian officer during the second boer war, I highly recommend it
Great war movie. Check out "Young Winston" another good movie. It depicts the time Winston Churchill was captured by the Boers when his armoured train was ambushed. It also depicts the Battle of Omdurman 1898 and Winston's time serving in India. Simon Ward plays Winston Churchill and looks very like him. Check out "Zulu Dawn" which depicts the Battle of Isandlawana during the Anglo-Zulu War. Great movie starring Simon Ward ,Peter O' Toole and Burt Lancaster.
They crept up the hill. I have once tried to get up Majuba “Hill” (its actually part of a mountain range ) to go see the monument on top.I was told it was an easy route so did not take anything with me. I got 2/3 of the way up and decided to not go further. That made me think that either those guys where very angry,completely insane or was maybe smoking something stronger than normal tobacco or maybe all of it.
Love seeing South African history! If you ever get the opportunity, do some research/reading on some other historical events here that shaped the country we have today. one important one is the Mfecane (from the Zulu perspective) in which many native tribes and peoples were forced to relocate by the Zulu which created a power/occupation vacuum into which the Boer's trekked and established the republics.
it's also interesting to note, Afrikaans has more in similar with Flemish than Dutch, however i think that's incidental. Also we pronounce the word 'Boer' with a 'oo' sound as in 'book'.
@Sherri T[A]P Me!! To Have [S]EX With Me It's a method of warfare practiced since ancient times against the likes of the Romans, persians, etc. Nothing new, TBH. They also tried fighting conventionally... Failed miserably in the end. Guerilla warfare exists for a reason, have to agree on that.
Me: Don't say it!
Feature History: Boar war.
I don know how but i read “the first boomer war“
you forsee the future
2:24 Now wait just a minute! I believe you skipped over a few details, dude just how does that small Cape outpost legally become that whole vast red area!? Perfidious Anglo strikes again?
Feature history: "Oh yeah the Boers killed most of all the british, but the british *let* them win."
The objective in every war is to get the enemy to a point where they can not or want not continue to fight. The enemy deciding continuing the war is not worth is is a regular victory.
Has the same 'vibe' as "Oh yeah the Dutch defeated the English at sea, but only because they were broke"
Can you please do the Angolan Civil War
And Mozambique and Nigeria and Rhodesia and Congo and Eritrea and Sudan and Namibia and Algeria...
So much untapped history in Africa.
I was hoping for that sometime soon as well. Love that conflict, lots of proxy support with that one, also, Cuba beat South Africa and that's really awesome to comprehend.
Lol I thought this would be a underrated comment
@@richdrizzledick6939 you know the cuban field commander was executed upon his arrival. That doesn't sound like much of a truiphant return...
Excellent narrative, thanks. (from a Boer descendant haha). BTW...the main reason for the Boers trekking away from the Cape Colony was not necessary because of the abolishment of slavery...The Boers had no slave system in their new republics...
smh can't believe kids these days don't even recognize the importance of the 1st Boar War in British colonial history.
It's funny how nowadays, people will claim ulterior motives for war ("must be oil!")... but back then, Britain was openly like *" HELL YEAH! They got diamonds? War. They got tea? War. They got spices? War. They got gold? War."*
They didn't give a shit lol. Basically if any area anywhere in the world had something exploitable, damn right they were going to war to get some too 😂
Immediatly wanted to say we dont speak Dutch but instead Afrikaans... You got me before I could, darn you.
Sounds like he is recording this in a cave. Hope you enjoy your big room, cheers for the history.
There’s gonna be another boar war when giant teleporting man eating boars start coming for your children
I agree with you completely!
Bobby b?
Somebody just got done watching the movie Razorback
And spoiler those hogs don't transport though
Out in the countryside? That's why you have full automatic rifles
This is why they invented the AR-15, to kill between 30-50 boars in warfare.
My great great great grandfather was sarel Cilliers! I'm proud of that.
A technical point: The boers never were sufficient in horses. This lead to strategic losses, despite tactical victories.
Dutch Colonies:*Exists
Netherlands : *gets incorporated to the napoleonic empire
Britain: _its free real estate_
The World > Stuff happens
_Britain_ > hippity hoppity
Hello, I am currently writing a proposal for my paper about the first Boer War, and I must say your video is very clear in narrating the events that took place. I am wondering, however, if you are able to provide links to the books / articles you have used as sources in making this video?
Correction: Cape of good hope was named by Bartolomeu Dias, a portuguese navigator
I would love to see this channel take a crack at the rise and fall of the Zulu Empire
I'm legit thinking South Africa could be made into a video game lmao
To put it simply, this is the moment when the African Wild West faced against the British Empire.
Other than the natalia republic's ginormous border, really good. Pretty accurate and strikes at the heart of the conflict. Incidently the gold rush made the Transvaal financially stable, but geopolitically vulnerable.
Western world: "Hello"
Africans: "Hallo, and welcome to feature history...[discusses first Boer war]"
Ive been in a rohdesian mood lately so this is just what I need
What do you mean by rhodesian mood
@@timvanrijn8239 you never just felt the need to grab your FN and hang with the boys?
@@brandonneldo112 not realy but i have seen that in others.
We are not rhodesians tho
cringe
You rarely get to hear about the history of the Boer people. Usually they are only mentioned to in terms of apartheid without context. This episode gives a great and detailed history that is being lost.
I'm sure I won't be the only one to say this, but the pronunciation for "boer" is with the "oo" sound as in school ^^
It is funny how a lot of English/American people say it wrong even though it should be easy for them
@@sjakierulez it's the spelling that throws people's pronunciation off.
You're right, Anna. It isn't rocket science.
Oh wait, it seems to be!
Dit is reg
Can you do a video on the history of Bougainville? They’re currently doing a referendum to gain independence. Or even possibly a video on East Timor.
This was also one of the first times camo uniforms were widely used
Wow, you sound much more confident in this video, I am glad you improve the way you narrate, keep it up👏👏
South African here, thanks for the great summation! Would be interesting to see a multi part series of the second boer war! Perhaps with a little more focus on the Zulu's, the legendary king Langalibalele of the amaHlubi and such. Its such an important and devestating conflict in our history as it paved the way for Apartheid and much of the hatred our country grapples with today.
Also to pronounce 'Boer' try 'BOO (as in Boot) + ER (same as the end of farmER) ' in afrikaans those vowels don't really mix as a single sound as they do in English but rather as two immediate vowel sounds, rather than 'bore'. It's tricky and this isn't me attacking in anyway! Just want to help out.
I've been seeing so much bad news coming from S.Africa these days. Is it really that bad? Like regular murders and rapes against white landowners in the countryside by lawless black supremacists?
I'm not being racist, but that's how the news I see all the time portrays it.
@@miniaturesandstuff5209 I might have just commented the same thing multiple times, thought my internet was acting up.
That how my father used to pronounce English ( he had grown up in Johannesburg)
I have only one question , you use the " re " the same way we Greeks do?
@@miniaturesandstuff5209 Yes, things are pretty bad in South Africa. Every year it gets worse.
@@ezramalzbender7934 to be honest I don't know how a Greek pronounces an er haha. I had some Greek friends in Johannesburg and they were the best.
Given how Downton Abby's a thing it's good to see some of the setting's historical background.
Akrikaans REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Hyped.
the dutch also lost ceylon, the brits took that for themselves too (tea addicts and all).
Didn't know Curiosity Stream was part of the Boer wars
Afrikaans dont say hallo, they say "goeie more." Or howzit boet
Some videos about Indonesia would be interesting such as:
1. Indonesian Invasion and Independence of East Timor
2. 11/30 Coup and the subsequent 1965-1966 Massacre
3. Indonesian National Revolution (including the mass killing of royalties in the western region)
4. Aceh Insurgence: The Rise and The Fall of Free Aceh Movement (GAM)
5. The Ongoing conflict in West Papua
Big Hegemonic country invading a foreing country: Exists
Guerilla Tactics: i'm gonna end this man's whole career
Not all the time.
I’m an English South African, my great great great grandfather was an 1820 setter
Harvey Martinez I don’t want to. However with the high crimes rates and hardly any work, leaving would be nice. It’s just impossible to leave unless you are very rich or have another citizenship. I would like to go and live in northern England where my ancestors came from. My family been in South Africa for 199 years and my last ancestor who was not from RSA came in 1904. I don’t think I’ll leave anytime soon
Harvey Martinez it is pretty dangerous. The city I live in, you will definitely get mugged if you walk the streets at night
@Harvey Martinez end of Apartheid is where it went wrong
Can you please do the Falklands war
He is alive !!!!!!
Yaaaaay
LA RIOTS WHEN?
@Hoàng Nguyên Uhhh haha?
@Hoàng Nguyên When the roofs speak korean.
I always like you vids BEFORE I watch them.
Do the Bolivian Narco war 70s-90s next
*Note: This war has nothing to do with boars. You probably already knew that, but I thought it did for an embarrassingly long amount of time.
9:05 so, like Vietnam?
Basically
Thanks for mentioning the British cincentrationcamps where 2500 woman and childeren died during the boer war.
I have Boer ancestry on my mum's side. They changed the spelling of their surname to Bor in response to the anti-Dutch sentiments that came up during the fighting.
As jy my nie verstaan nie is jy nie n boer nie
@@dodecahedron7910 lol
This was a great video, can't wait for part 2
The oe in boer is prenounced as the oo in oof, and the r is a spanish r
He's Australian, there's no chance in hell he's gonna care about pronunciation lol
So it's pronounced as Bur?
@@norfangl3480 you mean the u sound as the I sound in bird? Becouse then, no. It's the oo in oof. Or the oo in boo. Or the oo in loo. Or the oe in shoe
oh. I've always pronounced oof as 'uhf' lmao. But I dunno how one combines "boo" with an r on the end. Boo-ar?
@@norfangl3480 it's a spanish r. The one that you roll on your tounge. The English language has a very rare and hard to prenounce r. You can also just use Google translate.
The British Empire was armed primarily with Martini-Henrys. While a reasonable weapon, one of the best military arms of the day, the Boer had an absolute advantage. Boer kommandos had a vast array of rifles including Martini-Henrys, Mauser Gewehr 71s, Chassepots, Spencer carbines, Henry (and subsequent Winchester) carbines among many other weapons. While the Martini-Henrys, Chassepots, and Gewehr 71s offered big, hard hitting rounds over distance, the real advantage and the feature which made cover fire so available for the Boers was within the repeater carbines. The rate of fire offered by the lighter shooting Henry's, Winchesters and Spencers allowed accurate, fast shots giving the rest of the Boer riflemen relative safety when taking position. Furthermore, Boers had to be accurate marksmen to survive. Whether they were hunting for food or shooting to stop an angry lion or hippo, a Boer had to be a master of his weapon, even today many young South Africans learn to shoot well.
By comparison, the British regulars were not highly trained marksmen, they were expected to perform to order against opposing ranks of men. Holding an individual at distance was not a speciality among British troops although some were apt marksmen.
A further understanding of the land and unconventional yet now modern tactics gave the Boer kommandos a great advantage against an army who even marching into WW1 would carry the old volley tactic.
Amazing comment. This what I was thinking as I was reading about similiar experiences by Russians fighting in Caucasus. This lead to more focus on dragoon/sharpshooter regiments to get that flexibility needed.
Britain: hey black people should have rights
Boers: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
look where it got them, famine and child rape
Noah Hill no
Britain: The rights to agree to become our subjects, or else. Rule Britannia!
Cheekychief22 Because Anglos can do no wrong, right Brit boy?
Kaiser Wilhelm I don’t know about anglos but I know your arm can’t do anything
We need a part 2
most humiliating battle in british history? now there's a fun debate.
Any battle lost to the zulu is more humiliating imo.
Singapore, Isandlwana, Gallipoli,, the First Afghan War, Hastings... the list is very long, but nowhere near as long as the list of their triumphs. That's how they gained the biggest empire in world history..
I think you guys are over looking the greatest British defeat of all. ‘Murica 🇺🇸
(It’s a joke, don’t get all pissed (triggered, whatever) at me 🤣)
Cartagena de Indias, against Blas de Lezo
That is in my honest opinion their worst defeat
Please make a follow up one for the 2nd Boer war.
Hope this one isn't too Boering.
Gigas0101 stop.
still waiting for the second boer war
The size of the Dutch
The spirit of the Irish
The bravery of the Scotts
The passion of the French
The precision of the Germans...
Kind of like they were bred to be the ultimate soldiers?
The Slavery of the Africans, wait that's not the same thing as you're talking about.
Ultimate soldier also excel at close combat and hand to hand fight something the boers sucked at but the british didn't. Also those ethnics you mentioned well the british have beaten every single one of them. Just ask which language is official in ireland today or lingua franca of the world. They beat the french in north america,the germans in ww1 and dutch in africa. Not to mention the scotts and irish who literally ended up serving them.
@@ktheterkuceder6825 So you're saying the english are a bunch of warloving barbarians?
@@nonegone7170 Well if you are gonna have an empire you are not going to gain it by being a chivaltous gentleman. You win it by being ruthless.
Also brits themselves are a mixture of : norse viking,anglo-saxon and celt. These fuckers were absolute mad lads.
Say what you will about them, being a Farmer-Commando is peak alpha existence.
So basically some guys pissed off some other guys twice, and the other guys got mad, and for some reason they speak Dutch
a group of people started building up a landmass and then another group said "there is gold in their house, we should break in, kill them and keep it for ourselves"
the british were nikkers and the boer were defending their homes.
janis vogel bruh it’s a joke
I wish people wouldn't call it the "Transvaal republic" it was called "The South African Republic" or Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek to give it it's proper name.