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Boer Wars

A collection of various texts closely associated with the Boer Wars of 1880-1902

Contents 1 Documents from the War 2 Analytical works 3 Newspaper articles 4 Reference works

[edit] Documents from the War

• A Century of Wrong, important propaganda tool against the British written in 1900 by Author:Francis William Reitz
• Pretoria Convention, treaty ending the first war in 1881
• Peace of Vereeniging, treaty ending the second war in 1902
• Middelberg Proposal, preliminary letter leading to the Peace of Vereeniging. Written by British General Herbert Kritchener to General Louis Botha.
• Brunt of the War, text condemning British concentration camps by Author:Emily Hobhouse
• Scapegoats of the Empire, 1907 by Author:George Witton

[edit] Analytical works

• The Young Colonists; A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars, 1898 by Author:George Alfred Henty[1]
• The Great Boer War, 1900 by Author:Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Boer War, 1927 excerpt from The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Author:Mohandas K. Gandhi
• Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900

[edit] Newspaper articles

• How Lieut. Churchill Escaped From Boers, as it appeared in the 1900 New York Times

[edit] Reference works

• Boer War, as it appeared in the 1914 New Student's Reference Work