All important things about Boer War.

1. BOER WAR
CREATED BY- KARTIK PATEL

3. BOER WAR SHORT NOTE
• The First Boer War, 1880-1881, also known as the First Anglo-Boer
War, the Transvaal War or the Transvaal Rebellion, was a war fought
from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881 between the United
Kingdom and Boers of the Transvaal. The war resulted in Britain’s
accession to the establishment of the Second Republic.

4. WHY DOES BOER WAR TOOK PLACE ?
• The South African War was fought between Britain and the self-governing
Afrikaner (Boer) colonies of the South African Republic (the Transvaal) and
the Orange Free State. ... The war began on October 11 1899, following
a Boer ultimatum that the British should cease building up their forces in the
region.

5. WHY THEY WERE CALLED BOER ?
• The term Boer, derived from the Afrikaans word for farmer, was used to
describe the people in southern Africa who traced their ancestry to Dutch,
German and French Huguenot settlers who arrived in the Cape of Good Hope
from 1652.

6. WHO WON THE FIRST BOER WAR ?
• In the final peace treaty, the Pretoria Convention, negotiated by a three-man
Royal Commission, the British agreed to complete Boer self-government in the
Transvaal under British suzerainty. The Boers accepted the Queen's nominal
rule and British control over external relations, African affairs and native
districts.

8. IS AFRIKANS IS SAME AS DUTCH
• As an estimated 90 to 95% of Afrikaans vocabulary is ultimately
of Dutch origin, there are few lexical differences between the two languages;
however, Afrikaans has a considerably more regular morphology, grammar,
and spelling.

9. HOW DID BOER WAR HAD ENDED
• In 1833, the Boers began an exodus into African tribal territory, where they
founded the republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. ... By 1902,
the British had crushed the Boer resistance, and on May 31 of that year, the
Peace of Vereeniging was signed, ending hostilities.

11. WHY DID BRITISH WANTED SOUTH
AFRICA
• The British wanted to control South Africa because it was one of the trade
routes to India. However, when gold and diamonds were discovered in the
1860s-1880s their interest in the region increased. This brought them into
conflict with the Boers. ... Tensions between Boers and British led to the Boer
War of 1899-1902.

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