About eleven the infantry began to go forward with an advance which would have astonished the martinets of Aldershot, an irregular fringe of crawlers, wrigglers, writhers, crouchers, all cool and deliberate, giving away no points in this grim game of death. Where now were the officers with their distinctive dresses and flashing swords, where the valiant rushes over the open, where the men who were too proud to lie down? — the tactics of three months ago seemed as obsolete as those of the middle ages. — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War
General
- Introduction
- Lessons learned (and not learned) from the Boer War
- Images of the Boer War
- Resources for studying the Boer War: Books and Periodicals available online
Maps
- Northern Natal
- Orange River Colony, southern part
- Orange River Colony, northern part
- Sketch map of South Africa
- Area around Ladysmith
- Terms used to describe the terrain of Southern Africa
Major figures in the war
- Lord Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief
- Sir Alfred Milner
- General Hector Macdonald
- Lieutenant-General French
- Major-General Wavell
- Lieut. General Pole-Carew
- Cecil J. Rhodes
- Commandant General Louis Botha
- Commander Cronje
- Chief Commandant General Christian De Wet
- Commander Prinsloo
- Major Albrecht
- M. T. Steijn, President of the Orange Free State
Major campaigns, skirmishes, and battles
- Elandslaagte and Rietfontein (Conan Doyle)
- Lombard’s Kop and Nicholson’s Nek (Conan Doyle)
- Battle of Magersfontein (Conan Doyle)
- Battle of Stormberg (Conan Doyle)
- Battle of Colenso (Conan Doyle)
- Ladysmith (Conan Doyle)
- The Colesberg Operations (Conan Doyle)
- Spion Kop (Conan Doyle)
- Vaalkranz (Conan Doyle)
- The Siege and Relief of Kimberley (Conan Doyle)
- Paardberg (Conan Doyle)
- Roberts’s Advance on Blomfontein (Conan Doyle)
- The Halt at Bloemfontein (Conan Doyle)
- The Clearing of the South-East (Conan Doyle)
- The Siege of Mafeking (Conan Doyle)
- The March on Pretoria (Conan Doyle)
- Diamond Hill — Rundle’s Operations (Conan Doyle)
- Dundee (Glencoe), October 20, 1899 (painting)
- Elands Laagte, October 21, 1899 (painting)
- Belmont, November 23, 1899 (painting)
- Modder River, November 28, 1899 (painting)
- Osfontein (painting)
Weapons and military equipment
- The 155 mm. Schbeider-Creusot Long Tom
- Howitzers (at the Siege of Mafeking)
- The Maxim 37mm. Pom Pom — invented by the British, used by the Boers
- British Armstrong Gun
- British Armoured train
The Boer point of view
- In Memory of the Brave Deeds of the Boers
- Boer generals and officers
- Combat de Tweebosch, capture du Général Methuen
- Gunners of the Transvaal State Artillery
- Mrs. Berrett — three months on commando and wounded at the battle of Spion Kop
- Father and the bridegroom leaving for war
- A Transvaal Ambulance [Railway Train]
War Monuments and Memorials
- The Carabiniers Memorial, London
- Royal Artillery Boer War Memorial, London
- Boer War Memorial, York
- Two neglected Boer War memorials and the judgement of history
Last modified 25 January 2015