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Sentence Examples When the last Boers eventually surrendered, in May 1902, most Britons were heartily sick of the war. Events in South Africa were not dissimilar, but were complicated by the presence of the Boers. A group of Griqua sold their lands in the Orange River Valley to Boers and migrated across the Drakensberg into land depopulated by the Zulus. The truth is that in two hundred years the stiffest opposition the British faced in Africa were the Boers and the Afrika Korps. In December 1880 the Boers rose in revolt, laying siege to isolated British garrisons. The war arose from rivalry between Britain's claim to be the paramount power in southern Africa and the desire of the Boers for autonomy. I expect almost all other Boers in the South African cricket side to be of a similar ilk. The Zulu War reminds one of similar discreditable campaigns against the Dervishes, Afghans, Boers and Maoris. The Ngoni, originally from South Africa, escaped from the Boers and Zulus and settled in Eastern Zambia. The British endured similar military embarrassment at the hands of Indians, Afghans, Zulus and Boers. The Boers or Afrikaners, as the descendants of the Dutch called themselves, ceded the Cape to Great Britain in an 1814 treaty. The fact that the Boers were slavers, and utterly despised the blacks, was of little consequence to Britain's critics. The Australians fought again in Africa at the end of the century, supporting the British fight against the Boers in South Africa. In the late 1830s, initial contact occurred among the Swazi, the Boers, and the British. The first major activity of the new federation was to send Australian troops to South Africa to fight the Boers. The narrative of his capture by the Boers, imprisonment and escape makes him the most famous of British reporters. The hyper patriotic British made moral judgements at the time about the Boers and their sneaky, ungentlemanly methods. Hughes and his group, who were on the heights and passed undetected, set a trap for the Boers as they escaped into the night. Cape mastic is the produce of Euryops multifidus, the resin bush, or hairpuis bosch of the Boers a plant of the family Compositae. Although they were called Boers, the Dutch word for farmer, it would be a mistake to think of all the Afrikaner trekkers and their descendants essentially as farmers. Show More Sentences During the 16th and 17th centuries, Dutch, Boers, Germans, and Huguenots migrated to South Africa, and these people brought with them their own European hunting dogs. The crisis in South Africa which caused the war was the culmination of 250 years of expansion and conflict between the Boers, mainly Dutch, and British settlers. The Boers, who occupied the more northern independent republics of the Orange Free State and Transvaal, wanted to remain independent. British colonialists left the country pretty much to its own devices, seeing it merely as a buffer zone against Germans and Boers. This action was reluctantly accepted by local rulers as preferable to direct rule by either the Germans or Boers. The date of 1889 makes me think of a rifle which would have been useful during the War of Boers in South Africa. No army officially adopted this expensive and complicated model, but it was seen in action at the time of the war of Boers and of 1st world war. The Boers charged the hill four times, and were inspanning wagons preparatory to a retreat, when our men were forced to fall back owing to their reserve. The Boers saw the Uitlanders as a threat to their independence and introduced various measures that the Uitlanders considered to be discriminatory. Fighting between the Boers and British continued, however, until the resources of both Boer republics had been broken by unceasing strain against superior forces. The Boers resented the influx of Uitlanders and compelled them to pay higher taxes and refused to give them the vote. To prevent the Germans from expanding eastwards to link up with the Boers, in January 1885 the British proclaimed a protectorate over the southern half of Botswana. In a situation where imperial troops were spending the night in a depression, Sam Hughes was roused by a sentry who had spotted Boers hurtling down the slope with their sights on the British soldiery. Designed by British architect Sir Herbert Baker, the Union Buildings are redolent of South Africa's colonial past, their name referring to the union of British and Boers. In one case, for example, they had set up bivouacs right under the guns of small groups of Boers, who soon ringed the British campfires with shells. After Roberts had won the conventional war, Kitchener was left in charge of fighting the Boers, who had taken to guerrilla warfare. Marion Boers thanked FIT Europe's Steering Committee for the invitation to attend their General Assembly as observers and expressed the hope for further fruitful cooperation between FIT and its European Regional Centre. The Boers and Afrikaner Calvinists combined ideas from Calvinism and Kuyperian theology to justify apartheid in South Africa. The Boers formed loose militias, which they termed commandos, and forged alliances with Khoisan groups to repel Xhosa raids. Boers often referred to the settled European farmers or nomadic cattle herders. Show More Sentences The Trek resulted in a cultural split between the Voortrekkers, later known as the Boers, and the Cape Afrikaners. The Boers saw their victory at the Battle of Blood River as evidence that they had found divine favour for their exodus from British rule. In South Africa the Boers and Cape Dutch collectively known as the Afrikaners. The Boers, my Daughter, are part of the white population of South Africa. In the 1890s, some Boers trekked into Mashonaland, where they were concentrated at the town of Enkeldoorn, now Chivhu. The unexpectedly great difficulty in defeating the Boers forced a reevaluation of policy. Between 7 February 1907 and February 18, 1909 above the last group of families Boers. The Boers sjamboked unmercifully or shot natives whom they suspected of giving information to the British. It's being fought by Britain against the Boers of South Africa, and due to popular demand in some quarters, Canadian troops are in the thick of it. The creation of a British protectorate on the territory of the Tswana and Bechuanaland in order to protect them from expansion by the Boers of South Africa. There were trenches for us men, but no place of safety for our horses nearer than this long and narrow donga which ran from within our lines towards those of the Boers. The English cries of the soldiers were answered in English by the Boers, and slouch hat or helmet dimly seen in the mirk was the only badge of friend or foe. Dutch Calvinist settlers were also the first successful European colonizers of South Africa, beginning in the 17th century, who became known as Boers or Afrikaners. In 1843, Britain annexed Natal and many Boers trekked inwards again. The Boers won the first war and retained their independence. Some Boers subsequently moved to South West Africa, which was administered by South Africa until its independence in 1990, after which the country adopted the name Namibia. Afrikaners are dominated by two main groups, the Cape Dutch and Boers, which are partly defined by different traditions of society, law, and historical economic bases. Examples from Classical Literature But the Boers in the laager had found time to load, and they met with a warm reception. There are very schelm Boers in these mountains, and whoever tried to stir up that affair his life would not be worth a tickey. But, finally, he was brought to reason, and immediately on the display of the magic square the Boers ceased fire. Several of these groups were encountered, and in various skirmishes seven Boers were disposed of and a Maxim gun captured. A truckload of Boers behind every engine would have stopped the practice for ever. But there were kopjes ahead, sown with fierce dopper Boers, and those tempting wagons were only to be reached over their bodies. The Raid was a fizzle and the commander and all his men were captured by the Boers. If the Boers weren't deceived by that old villain Kruger, they'd never have fought us. It was evident to my unpractised eye that we had the Boers on the run at last. An' th' Boers squat behind a bouldher or a three or set comfortable in th' bed iv a river an' bang away. The Boers rescued him, relieved him of his bandolier, and made him prisoner. It is only fair to say that the Boers themselves were masters of the art of haulage. We, of course, presented a big mark for the Boers, and were not under any covering fire so far as I am aware. Boers began attack at daybreak with two or three guns and a pompom, shelling the position hard. After some sharp fighting the Boers were driven out of the seaport. You may scare them into cantering down into the midst of the Boers! He had been deputed to instruct the Boers how to mix these ingredients. We military police suspected him of dealings with the Boers. The Boers were hugely elated at the sight of the star shell. And there's twenty thousand Boers plunk in the middle, ain't they? Show More Sentences Only a small contingent of Transvaal Boers took part in the expedition. Find more words! 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