Boer Vs British

• Despite Boers's skills and countryside knowledge, their two main armies were beaten by the British quickly - yet they had a guerilla campaign that lasted two more years
• As a response to the guerilla campaign, the British destroyed their farms and moved Boer women and children to concentration camps leading to 25% of their pop. dying
• Boers were forced to join the empire and learn English over Afrikaans (a type of Dutch) - boers saw themselves as an oppressed minority and wanted freedom from British control both saw themselves as superior to the Natives
• Black Africans helped in the war - mostly for Britain but it was mostly seen as a “White man's war”