US leaders anticipated a walkover. Now they’re embroiled in a conflict that could hasten the end of US economic dominance, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott ...

The conflict, columnist Larry Elliott suggested, could be the American version of the Boer War — a costly business marking the end of an empire. No-one gave the beleaguered Boer republics a chance ...

The Boer war involved three networks of concentration camps. Boer (white) camps with women and children totalling around 115,000. Black camps with men, women and children totalling around 115,000, and ...

A Queensland academic is calling for more to be done to identify and honour Aboriginal men who served in the Boer War. More than 100 years on, it is still unclear how many Indigenous soldiers fought ...

The British took over 25,000 Boer prisoners of war and shipped them to other colonies, while confining civilians, including women and children, in concentration camps in South Africa. The prisoners ...

From 1899 to 1902 a war between Farmers, commonly known as Boers, and soldiers of the British Empire waged over South Africa. The British (also known as the Kaki’s) fought unsuccessfully against the ...