Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (,  or Tweede Boereoorlog) was a war. In 1886 gold was discovered near Johannesburg. This made the Transvaal Republic more powerful. They quarreled with the British about it and a war started. It lasted from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902. In the war, the British Empire fought against the Dutch-descended, Afrikaans-speaking settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic) and the Orange Free State. Winston Churchill, a newspaper reporter at the time, was captured by the Boers but escaped. The British made use of concentration camps. This weakened the Boers. It helped the British stop the war from lasting any longer.

The British troops won the war. As a result, both republics were annexed to the British Empire. Later, both were eventually  incorporated into the Union of South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire, in 1910. The conflict is commonly referred to as The Boer War but it is also known as the South African War outside South Africa, the Anglo-Boer War among most South Africans, and in Afrikaans as the Anglo-Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog ("Second War of Liberation" or lit. "Second Freedom War") or the Engelse oorlog (English War).

The Second Boer War is a part of what are known as the Boer Wars.  These include the lesser known First Boer War that took place from December 1880 to March 1881.

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