🇿🇦🇬🇧🇳🇱The Boar War, a.k.a. South African War, which the Afrikaners call Second War of Independence, was fought from October 11, 1899, to May 31, 1902, between Great Britain and the two Boer (Afrikaner) republics—the South African Republic(Transvaal) and the Orange Free State—resulting in British victory. It was preceded by the so-called First Boer War, also known as the Transvaal War or the Transvaal Rebellion, which was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881 between the United Kingdom and Boers of the Transvaal (as the South African Republic was known while under British administration). Collectively, these conflicts are referred to by historians as Boer Wars! The Second Boer War was the largest and most costly war in which the British engaged between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I (spending more than £200 million). It was fought between wholly unequal protagonists. The total British military strength in Southern Africa reached nearly 500,000 men, whereas the Boers could muster no more than about 88,000. But the British were fighting in a hostile country over difficult terrain, with long lines of communications, while the Boers, mainly on the defensive, were able to use modern rifle fire to good effect at a time when attacking forces had no means of overcoming it. The conflict provided a foretaste of warfare fought with breach-loading rifles and machine guns, with the advantage to the defenders, that was to characterize World War I. The artwork shows 4 prominent historical figures, statesman and commanders of the Second Boer War. From left: 🇿🇦Christiaan Rudolf de Wet (1854-1922) was a Boer soldier and statesman who is regarded by Afrikaner nationalists as one of their greatest heroes. He won renown as commander in chief of the Orange Free State forces in the South African War (1899–1902) and was a leader in the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914. 🇬🇧The British soldier and filed marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria, a...