From 1899 to 1902 a war between Farmers, commonly known as Boers, and soldiers of the British Empire waged over South Africa.

Several events in my life, beginning in 1967, inspired me to follow developments thereafter which in turn relate to recent international stories. This column is a bit of a retrospective on what I ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Sniping, while still not known by that term, evolved further during the Anglo-Boer War as Boer marksmen began to make concealment as important as the actual ...

IN the same year that the English Parliament cut off the head of Charles I, the Dutch East India Company planted a station at the northern end of the peninsula which ends to the south in the Cape of ...

Roberts died of pneumonia in France on 14 November 1914 while visiting Indian troops fighting in the First World War. His ...