At the turn of the 20 th century, the Boer War held all the promise of noble and heroic adventure for thousands of young ...

Britain only had a small, though well-trained regular army. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war ...

index. $34.95. ISBN: 0806142898. Noted British historian Spencer Jones takes a look at how disaster in the field during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) transformed the British Army. The late ...

The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war, the British army experienced great difficulty in finding fit ...

John Norris looks at a mainstay of the British Army in WWI; the 18-Pounder field gun ...

As far back as the Second Boer War of 1899-1902 ... a dozen companies were commissioned to produce watches for the British military. These companies included Jaeger-LeCoultre, Longines and ...

The entire British Army would be devastated in "six months to a year" in a major war – underlining the importance of rebuilding the UK's reserve forces, a defence minister has said. Al Carns ...

James Unkles said the council's decision not to honour the Boer War soldier on the memorial ... an irregular unit linked to the British Army. While defenders maintain that the executed men were ...