A compromise was reached and Canada agreed to send volunteers to serve under British command in the Boer War. It represented the first large group of Canadian soldiers to serve overseas.

Britain only had a small, though well-trained regular army. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war ...

Relentlessly, history rolls on and events that were once within reach of human memory can no longer be recalled.

used by the British in the Boer War and the First World War, and by several armed forces as an emergency back-up cipher in the Second World War. When Lt. John F. Kennedy's PT-109 was sunk by a ...

The Second Boer War began in 1899 in the south of Africa. It was fought between the two Boer Republics and the British Empire. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to ...