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La guerre des BOERS
1834 : Migration des Boers vers le nord ("Le Grand Trek").
1877-81 : Suite à l'annexion du Transvaal, reconnu indépendant en 1852
avec l'Orange, révolte des Boers qui obtiennent l'autonomie pour les républiques boers.
1884 : Découverte des mines d'or. Les intérêts anglais et Boers divergent de plus en plus.
De 1899 à 1902 : Guerre des Boers et victoire anglaise.
Musée
canadien de la guerre-Visite des salles d'exposition
L'époque
victorienne - La guerre Sud-africaine
La guerre Sud-africaine, déclarée par les Britanniques contre les Boers, au tournant du siècle, fut le premier conflit majeur auquel le Canada participa à titre de dominion. Plus de 8 300 volontaires canadiens s'enrôlèrent pour le service outre-mer. La plupart servirent dans la cavalerie. Quatre d'entre-eux furent décorés de la Croix de Victoria.La guerre eut peu de répercussions apparentes au Canada, si ce n'est qu'elle souligna la différence d'interprétation qu'en firent les Canadiens français et les Canadiens d'origine britannique.
The
South African Military History Society (1)
The
South African Military History Society (2)
Newsletter
- December 1999
The
Irish have a fighting tradition second to none
August
1998 News Sheet No 282
Why
Dieppe?
Durban
Branch
The
Churchills in the Anglo-Boer War
Canada
Goes to War
The
story of Canadian participation in the
Anglo-Boer
War,
Carmen
Miller,
professor
of history and dean,
Faculty
of Arts, at McGill-Queen's University,
Montreal,
Canada
However, while strengthening Canadian nationalism, the war did widen the division between British and French Canadians and launched the 20th century French-Canadian nationalist movement. It also stimulated military reform and served as a dress rehearsal for WW1The division between English-and-French-speaking Canadians was deepened, with the French speakers showing growing resentment at the apparent increase in the power of the Federal Government. This partly explained the conflict over conscription which developed during WW1.
Canadian historians have tended to neglect their country's role in the Anglo Boer War partly due to the distaste felt at having joined a campagin to crush Afrikaaner nationalism
Britain's
shame' over Boer War
Jeremy
Vine
Britain's Duke of Kent has launched
the 100th
anniversary commemorations of
the Boer War
in South Africa by acknowledging
what he
called his country's dreadful
abuses.
Almost 70,000 lives were lost
in the war, which
began on 11 October 1899 and
raged for more
than three years, until the
British eventually wore
down the Boer resistance.
Only now are the thousands of
black people,
who were forcibly enlisted on
either side,
being properly remembered in
what was known as
the "white man's war".
Correspondents say the fact that
black people are being honoured
is part of the rewriting of
the nation's past now
that the centuries of white
rule has ended.
BBC
news
Queen's
regret over Boer War
November
10, 1999
The Queen has described the Boer
War in South Africa
as a "tragic chapter" in history
- but stopped short of apologising
for British atrocities during
the conflict.
Boer women and children were
detained in concentration camps
during the war, which took place
between 1899 to 1902,
as the British responded to
Boer guerrilla tactics.
Poor sanitation caused deaths
from disease of almost 28,000 Boers
and many thousands of black
refugees.
BBC
-NEWS
Imperialism
in the dock
the
Boer War
November
10, 1999
It was called "The Last of the
Gentleman's Wars",
but the Boer War, of 1899-1902
was in fact far from gentlemanly.
It took the vast force of the
British Army three years of fighting,
three huge sieges and many battles
with considerable loss of life,
to overwhelm the Boers (Afrikaners)
and achieve victory.
At least 25,000 Afrikaners died
in the war, most of them
in concentration camps. The
war also claimed 22,000 British
and 12,000 African lives.
And now the descendants of the
Boers want an
apology from the Queen.
The farms of Boers and Africans
were destroyed and the Boer
inhabitants of the countryside
were rounded up
and held in concentration camps.
The plight of the Boer women
and children in
these camps became an international
outrage -
more than 20,000 died in the
carelessly run, unhygienic camps.
A
pocketwatch given by Winston Churchill to a
man
who helped him escape a prisoner-of-war
camp
has fetched £9,775 at auction
October
20, 1999
The engraved gold timepiece was
sent to an
engineer who helped the former
prime minister
during the Boer War.
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