Ten Interesting Facts About the Boer War

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  • @laliedutoit
    @laliedutoit 2 місяці тому +17

    1. Killing Civilians (Boer=Farmer) is not War but genocide. 2. It was the royal 'gift'-the largest diamond in history-that ultimately sealed the peace agreement. 3. Churchill's escape was a fallacy as the "Boers" simply did not have the facilities to keep prisoners. They may have loved Churchill's supply of Whiskey though. 4. Creating division between the different South African communities to conquer is the British Fortey. It was, and remains, a dangerous game that often backfires. We have seen this after the Anglo-Boer war with WW1 and WW2.

    • @duktrilfromsouthafrica
      @duktrilfromsouthafrica 2 місяці тому

      100% correct. Also, the british only won the second war because of genocide and using tactics previously used by the boers in the first war.
      If our women and children weren’t being killed the queens men would’ve been turned into compost.

  • @ludwigmyburgh6054
    @ludwigmyburgh6054 2 місяці тому +19

    I'm the great grandson of a Boer general and Cape rebel. I strongly disagree with your univormed statement "I white man's war in a black country". This lie is typical of the liberal propaganda!! After the "Groot Trek" the Free-state and Transvaal was basically empty and land that was gained was legally bough. And for your interest, in 1900 where was more than 110,000 blacks in the british army whereby the british has armed up to 50% of the black to fight together the expanded british army , against our Boers.
    There were 143 british concentration throughout South Africa whereby up to 50% of my people where in the concentration camps and around 25% were deliberately murder.

    • @JohnTerblanche-l1r
      @JohnTerblanche-l1r Місяць тому

      Add in it wasnt a country it was territories devided between tribes who were more than happy to do cattle raids and wage war on one another. I dont believe in the empty land theory to an extent. We know piet retief and his trekkers found empty land in kzn because of the mfecane. But in fs and tv there were a few wars and skirmishes between the tribes, the Sotho lost land, there's also the Grique who's land was annexed by Britain close to Kimberley, add in the Mzililazi who was chased into Zim with help of some local tribes, probably khoisan. Some of the ndebele stayed behind and even had their own homeland during apartheid. If you go visit north west prov in sa today there is small community of people speaking a khoisan language called ngu with a click on the g. Back then territories and land was lost and reclaimed regularly between the tribes but the trekkers had the technological adv of guns, so natural balance was disturbed. Also the boere didnt have borders as in europe they were more worried on communities in prosperous lands it was the British that demanded they draw borders because they kept trying to annex the area, Boers in effect didnt own all that land lots of tribes lived among them, sometimes peacefully sometimes not. We saw in the veld the women that were homeless were regularly attacked by some of these scoundrels especially those who were allied with the scummy brits.

  • @MooLaa-e1s
    @MooLaa-e1s 2 місяці тому +5

    Interesting fact LORD OF THE RINGS author JPR TOLKEIN was born in south Africa in the town of BLOEMFONTEIN where his father was a military surgeon during the BOER WAR.

  • @theunssnyman6310
    @theunssnyman6310 2 місяці тому +7

    Just a little bias towards the British....to say the Brits was gentleman is saying the Taliban is Gentleman as well.

  • @flipfourie397
    @flipfourie397 2 місяці тому +6

    U failed to mention that the king of the Zulu nation was deported by the British to St.Helena as a prisoner of war

  • @johnnyeveritt5695
    @johnnyeveritt5695 2 місяці тому +14

    Fact # 11 : The eventual introduction of KHAKI uniforms by the British was the first instance of * Camouflage; * matching the colour of the surrounding countryside. Previously; the wearing of red-coats as offset with a white-X bandolier was an inviting; self-evident target practice for the Boers; who; as farmers; were recognised marksmen ! 🎯☠️

  • @robert8552
    @robert8552 2 місяці тому +12

    Informative, but mostly from the British perspective!

    • @afriquelesud
      @afriquelesud 2 місяці тому

      Propaganda, really. Misinformation, not facts. Typical of the breed.

  • @Redraver9
    @Redraver9 2 місяці тому +6

    Other famous names involved in the war:
    Arthur Conan Doyle -- Doyle served as a volunteer physician in the Langman Field Hospital at Bloemfontein between March and June 1900,[69] during the Second Boer War in South Africa.
    Banjo Patterson - writer / composer of - Waltzing Matilda -- Paterson became a war correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age during the Second Boer War.
    Rudyard Kipling - Worked as a war correspondent

    • @afriquelesud
      @afriquelesud 2 місяці тому +4

      Arthur Conan Doyle wrote much biased gibberish about the Boer War. He displayed a preference for opinion and an aversion to facts. Almost like this video.

  • @LisSimon-o1b
    @LisSimon-o1b 2 місяці тому +8

    Have you watched the show "Why everyone hates the English"?

  • @rudolphvanrooyen2655
    @rudolphvanrooyen2655 2 місяці тому +15

    This is an abomination of the truth !!

  • @MooLaa-e1s
    @MooLaa-e1s 2 місяці тому +4

    The battle of SPION KOP.
    A very small battle in the context of the great battles fought ie Stalingrad BUT two people who were involved in this battle if they'd had died in this battle would've changed the history of the 20th century to a certain degree they were non other than WINSTON CHURCHILL and MAHATMA GHANDI.

  • @Skipper.17
    @Skipper.17 2 місяці тому +21

    There was no such thing as Australian troops. At the time Australia was still broken up into colonies, so the different colonies supplied troops, not the country.

    • @Verita1975
      @Verita1975 2 місяці тому +8

      Australia was federated in 1901 .. Boer war was 1899 to 1902 so yes Australian troops were present - and put women and children in concentration camps!

    • @jacqeusmouton4005
      @jacqeusmouton4005 2 місяці тому +6

      @@Verita1975 Also produced a character named Breaker Morant that is still reviled in SA.

    • @StephenvanLoggerenberg
      @StephenvanLoggerenberg 2 місяці тому

      @@Verita1975

    • @afriquelesud
      @afriquelesud 2 місяці тому +5

      ​@@Verita1975Breaker Morant the most despicable of them all.

    • @JLW143
      @JLW143 2 місяці тому +3

      There were many Australians, don't deny it like Bongani's try.

  • @LourensGroenewald
    @LourensGroenewald 2 місяці тому +5

    We taught the world the beginning of guerilla-warfare..

  • @klar7946
    @klar7946 2 місяці тому +7

    So many flaws in this documentary...

  • @kalahari9558
    @kalahari9558 2 місяці тому +11

    What a lot of BS.
    Please do a fact check.

  • @chrisnel5505
    @chrisnel5505 2 місяці тому +3

    Gallipoli was awaiting a decade after..

  • @duncannapier318
    @duncannapier318 Місяць тому

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described the Afrikaners in South Africa as 'the most formidable people who had ever crossed the paths of imperial Britain'. If it wasn't for SA kicking the British butts and harsh lessons given on how to fight, WW1 would've ended differently. 👍🇿🇦

  • @AndrewduToit-wl3tn
    @AndrewduToit-wl3tn 2 місяці тому +16

    Black mans Country? The Boers were so named before the Xhosa's and the Zulu's had become Nations.

    • @JLW143
      @JLW143 2 місяці тому

      @@AndrewduToit-wl3tn The person is scoffing, probably muck.

    • @PhansiKhongoloza
      @PhansiKhongoloza 2 місяці тому +3

      Funny thing the Boere arrived in South Africa before the central African Bantu.

    • @AndrewduToit-wl3tn
      @AndrewduToit-wl3tn 2 місяці тому

      @@PhansiKhongoloza You correct.

    • @nkululekomolokomme5132
      @nkululekomolokomme5132 2 місяці тому

      ​@@PhansiKhongoloza how do you know that?

    • @PhansiKhongoloza
      @PhansiKhongoloza 2 місяці тому

      @@nkululekomolokomme5132 It's well documented. By people who could actually read and write.
      The early Portuguese navigators make no mention of encountering any "Negro's" along the southern coast of Africa. And having explored the West coast, they knew what a Negro looked like.
      Portuguese ship wreck survivors wrecked along the east coast had to make their way on foot to either Launda (which was impossible due to the Namib desert) or to Lourenco Marques. Not one of these shipwreck parties makes any mention of encountering any Negro's on their long walk to freedom.
      They mention the Khoi, they mention the San, but don't see any Bantu until they reach Mozambique.

  • @ernstkrapohl9418
    @ernstkrapohl9418 2 місяці тому +5

    It was a British War not Boer they started the process

    • @JLW143
      @JLW143 2 місяці тому +1

      The plucky Boers shoot the first shots.

    • @jankoekemoer6034
      @jankoekemoer6034 2 місяці тому

      ​@@JLW143tosser

    • @PhansiKhongoloza
      @PhansiKhongoloza 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@JLW143And why not. They were under threat of invasion.

    • @JLW143
      @JLW143 2 місяці тому

      @@PhansiKhongoloza There was no threat of invasion. The mining companies paid heavily to Kruger regarding mining licences and taxation. The British tried favorable treaties with Kruger. The influx of newcomers scared self proclaimed Afrikaner leaders from Johannesburg who
      forced hard headed Kruger to take action. Ignorant Kruger and cronies ordered farmers off their underdeveloped farms to war, all the while leaving their wives and kids to the mercy of the wild and hooligans. Naive Kruger though they would drive the English from Natal in two weeks time, which ended up more than two year's war - thre lies the problem.

    • @PhansiKhongoloza
      @PhansiKhongoloza 2 місяці тому

      @@JLW143 Not wholely true. The British had placed unreasonable demands on the Boer Republics. Demands which the Boers could never meet even if willing.
      Bottom line, the Brits converted Boer gold. End of.

  • @tiaanvandyk7804
    @tiaanvandyk7804 2 місяці тому +11

    The author is not entirely correct - I suggest he check his facts..

    • @posthumus98
      @posthumus98 2 місяці тому

      Be more specific please

    • @hansvorste84
      @hansvorste84 2 місяці тому

      Agree with you he is just tata ma chance with a yt channel

  • @kubenkain7169
    @kubenkain7169 2 місяці тому +5

    Not one mention of the Soldiers from the Indian sub continent!

    • @AndrewduToit-wl3tn
      @AndrewduToit-wl3tn 2 місяці тому

      They were not combatants but auxillary personal.

    • @kubenkain7169
      @kubenkain7169 2 місяці тому

      @@AndrewduToit-wl3tn Only some were Auxillary. Many were actually fighting.

    • @AndrewduToit-wl3tn
      @AndrewduToit-wl3tn 2 місяці тому

      @@kubenkain7169 Can you supply me a link to that end please.

    • @kubenkain7169
      @kubenkain7169 2 місяці тому

      @@AndrewduToit-wl3tn google the Bengal Lancers that landed in Cape town and fought in the Kimberley Area.
      Lady Smith also had soldiers that fought.

    • @AndrewduToit-wl3tn
      @AndrewduToit-wl3tn 2 місяці тому +1

      @@kubenkain7169 The only reference to Bengal Lancers was of a Lt. Col
      Birdwood that received a medal for meritorious service. No other mention is made except they fought for the British in Afganistan.

  • @phillmartin6196
    @phillmartin6196 2 місяці тому +8

    What a joke

  • @donaldgoodinson7550
    @donaldgoodinson7550 2 місяці тому +1

    Van Go?????? No such name,it's van Gough.

  • @Truthhates
    @Truthhates 2 місяці тому

    And they eon till this day they're living in paradise whilst Abanthu live in Mkuku's

  • @Barry460
    @Barry460 2 місяці тому +4

    Pot kak!

  • @garyblack6839
    @garyblack6839 2 місяці тому

    🙏🙏

  • @afriquelesud
    @afriquelesud 2 місяці тому +4

    When you cannot even properly pronounce "Boer," why are you making this video?

  • @johnallen7807
    @johnallen7807 2 місяці тому +1

    He also won the VC in WW1.

  • @christiecs
    @christiecs 2 місяці тому

    And she’s been spayed, see the left ear has been tipped, wonderful

  • @FrancoisSauer-ys3qc
    @FrancoisSauer-ys3qc 2 місяці тому

    You have no idea the truth is so far from this article not worth watching.

  • @hermannnortje4432
    @hermannnortje4432 2 місяці тому

    This is just another lei

  • @ericschoeman6613
    @ericschoeman6613 2 місяці тому

    Your facts are wrong

  • @VladislavKolev-d5j
    @VladislavKolev-d5j 2 місяці тому

    First

  • @fritzoos6
    @fritzoos6 2 місяці тому

    😂😂😂😂😂😂Bias to the English.

  • @JLW143
    @JLW143 2 місяці тому

    The Boers brought the consequences of the Boer war onto themselves. The mining companies paid heavily to Kruger Government regarding mining licences and taxation. The British tried to negotiate deals that were favorable to the Republic Governments, but hard headed Kruger declined most. The rather uncontrollable influx of newcomers scared some self proclaimed Afrikaner leaders from Johannesburg, who forced Kruger and cronies to declare an ultimatum against the British. Kruger and cronies ordered the farmers off their far away and underdeveloped farms to war and fired the first shots. Thereby leaving the farmer's wives and kids to the mercy of the wild and hooligans. Kruger and cronies thought the war would end in two weeks time, but it took more than two years to end. The British upon noticing the suffering of the wives and kids, gathered them in camps. The British efforts to have well run concentration camps was thwarted by the Boers who wrecked railway lines and other routes. Therefore necessary food, medicals, staff, equipment etc could not reach the camps.

    • @danievniekerk
      @danievniekerk 2 місяці тому +1

      And for that the British kill women and children

    • @FrancoDuToit-ts2rf
      @FrancoDuToit-ts2rf 2 місяці тому +1

      Ur utterly ignorant and British biased. Greed caused the war and the British GENOCIDE all because of British GREED and expacionitic tendancies.

    • @AndrewduToit-wl3tn
      @AndrewduToit-wl3tn 2 місяці тому +1

      Bull Shiite...Where does the Jameson Raid fit into you theory?

    • @JLW143
      @JLW143 2 місяці тому

      @@AndrewduToit-wl3tn Jameson was an inconsequential 2 day ill-fated fight against the Republic forces, long before the start of the Boer war. It was the gay Cicil Rhodes and Alfred Beit's thing to get an uprising in Johannesburg as well, but it never happened. It was not an Empire sanctioned expedition, although the participants were led to believe that it was "official". It is of course a juicy subject for certain historians, to make too much of it. What Jameson and Majuba unfortunately did, was creating an overblown self-assuredness by members of the Transvaal Cabinet, to later-on vote for war.

    • @AndrewduToit-wl3tn
      @AndrewduToit-wl3tn 2 місяці тому

      @@JLW143 Ill-fated yes, but still alerted Kruger of things to come.