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https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/South-African-War/273270

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/boer_wars_01.shtml#:~:text=The%20war%20had%20devastated%20the,the%20British%20sphere%20of%20influence.

https://www.britannica.com/event/South-African-War?utm_campaign=b-extension&utm_medium=chrome&utm_source=ebinsights&utm_content=South%20African%20War

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Would Britain be different if Boer forces were able to win the Second Boer War? Would Boer be benefited?

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The Treaty of Pretoria was made on May 31, 1902, which ended the war. This ended up with the SAR and the Orange Free State becoming British colonies, with Dutch and English as official languages. Then, Britain was starting to restore the farms of the Boers.

But, the consequences contributed to Boer poverty and devastated the Afrikaaners economically and psychologically. In total, almost 100,000 people died in the war.

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Boer forces attacked two of Britain's lands, Natal and the Cape Colony. The weapon that the Boer's armed themselves with was the British-made single shot .450 lever action rifle. The consequences of using this rife is the black powder which enemies were able to identify the rifleman's position. The Boer's also had a German Mauser 7mm rifle, which held 5 rounds. The British Army had a bolt-action .303 Lee-Metford rifle, which had a greater magazine capacity of 10 rounds, but had to be reloaded one round at a time than the Mauser, which could be loaded from clips quickly.

The first 5 months of the war involved both sides anticipate a setting of a battle, and one side commits to it. The Boers were able to camouflaged which they won against Britain at Stormberg, Magersfontein, and Colenso in December 1899. But, for the next 6 months the Boers were overpowered and had to retreat. On March 13 1900, the British commander in chief Lord Roberts took Pretoria and on June 5 1900 took Pretoria, which was the republican capitals. Lord Roberts combined the Gariep River Colony and the Transvaal on September 1 1900. Most of the Boers had to surrender themselves, and in the last 6 months of the war, 5,400 of the join the British Army. But, General Christiaan de Wet led a recovery to of Boer resistance with surprise attacks on Roberts exposed lines of communication. This was able to continue for almost 2 more years.

A new British commander in chief Lord Herbert Kitchener, was able to make a strategy to end the war. His plan was to slowly burn farms and create concentration camps for Bero civilians. Black people were also put in concentration camps for labour of gold mines, which were re-opened in 1901. The camps in South Africa led to poor quality of food, unhygienic conditions and unfit medical arrangements. In total, 48,000 people died in the camps.

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The years after 1897, Alfred Milner began to sabotage the political independence of the SAR and wanted the modification of the Boers republic's constitution to give political rights to the British outlanders. Milner asked the British government to send additional troops to reinforce the British posts in Southern Africa. This alarmed the Boers, which they began to arm themselves, and declared war on Britain in October 1899.

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About 15,000 Voortrekkers (people of Dutch extract) moved away from the British Cape Colony across the Gariep (Orange) River into the interior of South Africa. Then, they established two independent republics: the Transvaal (also called SAR - the South African Republic) and the Orange Free State, which got the name "Boers," the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmers.

There was peace between the British and Boers until fortune hunters called Uitlanders (outlanders) by the Dutch Farmers found diamonds and gold in the Boer republics. In 1877, Birtain took over the SAR, and in 1880 Boers in the SAR rebelled against the British, which was called the First Boer War, where the Boers won, and SAR regained independence.

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The Boer War was also called the South African War, Second Boer War, or the Anglo-Boer Wars. It was also called the Second War of Independence by Afrikaners. It was fought between October 11, 1899, to May 31, 1902, by Great Britain and two Boer (Afrikaner) republics.