Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War
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| Conflict | Second Anglo-Boer War | | Date | 11 October 1899 - 31 May 1902 | | Location | South Africa, Swaziland | | Result | British victory | Territorial
changes | British sovereignty over The Orange Free State and the Transvaal in accordance with the Treaty of Vereeniging | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
*British India
*Australia
Canada volunteers
New Zealand volunteers | Orange Free State
South African Republic
Foreign volunteers (Dutch, German, Russian, French, American, Irish, Polish, Scandinavian, Italian and Australian volunteers) | United Kingdom Lord Milner
United Kingdom Sir Redvers Buller
United Kingdom Lord Kitchener
United Kingdom Lord Roberts | South African Republic Paul Kruger
South African Republic Louis Botha
South African Republic Schalk W. Burger
South African Republic Koos de la Rey
Orange Free State Martinus Steyn
Orange Free State Christiaan de Wet
South African Republic Piet Cronjé | | 347,000 British (total about 450,000 - 500,000 with Commonthwealth forces) | | 83,000 (about 40.000 at the start of the war of which: 25.000 Transvaal Boers and 15.000 Free State Boers) | Military casualties
7,894 killed
13,250 died of disease
934 missing
22,828 wounded
44,906 total casualties | Military casualties
9,093 dead
Civilian casualties: 27,927 Boer women and children died in concentration camps (of which 24.000 children beneath 16)', plus an unknown number of black Africans (107,000 were interned). |
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The Second Boer War ( , or Tweede Boereoorlog) was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking inhabitants of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic) and the Orange Free State. It ended with a British victory and the annexation of both republics to the British Empire; both would eventually be incorporated into the Union of South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire, in 1910. The conflict is commonly referred to as The Boer War but is also known as the South African War outside South Africa, the Anglo-Boer War among most South Africans, and in Afrikaans as the Anglo-Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog ("Second War of Liberation" or lit. "Second Freedom War") or the Engelse oorlog (English War).
The Second Boer War and the earlier First Boer War (December 1880 to March 1881) are collectively known as the Boer Wars.
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