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[...] This new initiative again showed the naivety of the Boers in the face of the means at their disposal and those of the British Empire. The Treaty of Vereeniging in 1902 finally consecrated the end of the Second Boer War. Bibliography Coquerel, P. (1992). The Afrikaner South Africa. Editions Complexe. Mongin, D. (2014). Crises and Conflicts in the 20th Century. Armand Colin. Gervais-Lambony, P. (2013). Chapter 2 - A History of Conflicts and Conquests, the Formation of a Continental Sub-Region. [...]
[...] A war initiated by the Boers, countered by the British power In October 1899, Paul Kruger declared war on Great Britain. It was then that the South African War or Anglo-Boer War broke out, which lasted from 1899 to 1902. It would therefore oppose European colonizers and Afrikaners. Initially, the Boers mobilized many resources: 30 to 40,000 soldiers at the beginning. They invaded the British colonies of the Cape and Natal. They used military techniques relying on the power of the horse. This allowed them to ensure a certain mobility in the vast plains of South Africa. [...]
[...] Then the British Empire proclaimed English as the official language of the colony. This discontent led to a migration outside the Cape Colony, showing the Boers' desire for independence, called the Great Trek, from 1835 to 1840. It is a "founding episode of Boer identity", during which the Boers migrated to the North of the territory. This Great Trek represents a migration of over 2,000 km of all Boer settlers in southern Africa, by ox wagons. During this Great Trek, the Boers encountered, among others, indigenous peoples such as the Zulu people whom they confronted, particularly in 1838 during the Battle of Blood River. [...]
[...] Conclusion The period of the 19th century marked a difficult transition for the Boer populations in the face of British imperialism. Aware of the existing tensions within the colony, the British did not impose themselves brutally, but nevertheless gained ground from the 1830s onwards. Faced with this grip of the British Empire, the Boers first tried to flee in order to reconstitute a power internally in the country, with the initiative of the Great Trek, proclaiming two new Republics: Transvaal and Orange. [...]
[...] In what way was the 19th century marked by repeated attempts at emancipation of the Boer colonists against British imperialism? Dissertation - The Boers facing British Imperialism 1899-1902 Introduction Since the end of the 18th century, the Cape Colony (current South Africa) has experienced an alternation of colonizations by the dominant powers. In 1652, it became a Dutch colony; then in 1795, it underwent a first British occupation; in 1803, it became a colony of the Batavian Republic - sister of the French Republic; and finally, until its independence in 1961, the Cape Colony was under British occupation from 1806. [...]
