New Zealand's oldest surviving film shows a troop of horsemen from the Boer War Second Contingent in camp at one of the open days held before their departure at Newtown Park, Wellington, likely 13 ...
At the turn of the 20 th century, the Boer War held all the promise of noble and heroic adventure for thousands of young Canadian men. And for the nation it was an opportunity to show the world ...
On 24th January 1900 during the Second Boer War, in an area about the size of London’s Trafalgar Square, the flat top of a South African mountain became the killing field for hundreds of infantrymen ...
Portrait of Major Hay Gosse MC, who served in the Boer War and later in the First World War with the British Army. His son George served with the Royal Australian Navy in the Second World War and was ...
There are key spots for Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and his Nobel prize, for Canadian peacekeeping and for Canada’s push ...
A man shared a bit of history about the Single 9 Kruger Pond coin, a one-of-a-kind and valuable coin that was minted with an error but went to attract millions.
during the campaign by the British to relieve the besieged city Ladysmith during the initial months of the Second Boer War. It was an all-inclusive war between Britain and the allied men from ...
As the mint at Pretoria prepared new issue gold ponds they were missing the dies for the reverse of the coin. They had been seized by British troops, who were about to open hostilities in the Empire’s ...
Spioenkop is one of 82 battlefields, museums, old fortifications and places of remembrance that form part of the Battlefields Route in the province with appeal to especially British tourists. It also ...
The Irish nationalist was caught in the fault lines between empire and nation, colonised and coloniser, public face and ...
The trailer for "28 Years Later" uses the same eerie Rudyard Kipling poem that's played during the military's survival and ...