||It has been suggested that the text below be merged into
(added to) the Second Boer War page.| |Boer War (1902)| |South
African Republic Orange Free State | United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland The Second Boer War was much longer. In
1886, people found gold near Pretoria, the capital city of Boer
territory. In 1895, a British group from Rhodesia tried to take
control of Johannesburg, but the police stopped them. The Boer
president, Paul Kruger, was worried about the British, so the
Boers bought new weapons. Because of this, many British soldiers
moved to the area (many of them were from New Zealand, Australia
or Canada). In October of 1899, Boer soldiers attacked the
British. They started a siege- stopping people from entering or
leaving- at the towns of Mafeking and Ladysmith. The British
Army took control of most of the area in 1900, but Boer soldiers
still attacked them from their homes using guerrilla warfare.
The British took many prisoners, and put them in concentration
camps. They also destroy