By July, McCrae had his first taste of battle ... The last Boer guerillas surrendered in May 1902. The British kept South Africa, but the war had been a debacle. For English Canada, the war ...

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 ...

Adrian Carton de Wiart first saw combat with the British Army during the Boer War in South Africa ... during the Battle of the Somme during World War I in 1916. (AP Photo/PA Files) Later on ...

For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War ... Battle of New Orleans, while six months later the British ...

Just two years away from its 250th anniversary, the April 13, 1777 Battle of Bound Brook between the Continental Army and ...

American losses totaled over 400. The first true battle of the Revolutionary War was to prove the bloodiest of the entire conflict. Though the British had achieved their aim in capturing the hill ...

They felt it was their duty and privilege as part of the British ... in the Boer War. English Canadians followed the conflict enthusiastically, taking pride in Canadian achievements in battle.

One British soldier, Johann Dohla, a private in the Bayreuth Regiment, recorded his experiences in the raid in his published war diary. He described the destruction in Hackensack as “immediate ...