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The war for South Africa is a complete re-write of Nasson’s earlier book on the subject, The South African War, 1899–1902, written over a decade ago.
state-to-state conflict.2 South African military history contains all these ele-ments including British involvement during the nineteenth century, South Africa’s role in the world wars, and a long history of major land engagements from Isandlwana in 1879 to Cassino in 1944 to Cuito Cuanavale in 1988.
The Guerilla war. From February 1901 to the conclusion of hostilities. The development of peace negotiations from February 23, 1901, to May 31, l902.--VIII. South Africa and its future Subjects: South African War, 1899-1902; Transvaal (South Africa) -- History
10 lut 2012 · In chronological order the series started with the origins of the French Revolutionary Wars and covered titles on most of the important wars since the eighteenth century, including the two World...
The South African War of 1899-1902 was essentially a “White Man’s” war, fought to determine which white authority had real power in South Africa but other populations groups like the Zulu, Xhosa, Swazis and Basotho and Sotho’s were also involved in the war.
In 1914, the Union of South Africa was four years old; its military only two. British supremacy in the South African War (1899-1902) provoked different responses from English and Afrikaner white South Africans to World War I. Prime Minister Botha, seeing global war as a chance for South African expansion, suppressed the 1914 Afrikaner rebellion.
Since 1899 the idea has been widely held that the South African War was no isolated episode but one illuminating the fundamental characteristics of British expansion, both in the nineteenth century and beyond. Cross-reference between the particulars of South African history and theories of imperialism has long been a fact of intellectual life.
