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The South African Wars, including but also known as the Confederation Wars, were a series of wars that occurred in the southern portion of the African continent between 1879 and 1915. Ethnic, political, and social tensions between European colonial powers and indigenous Africans led to increasing hostilities, culminating in a series of wars and ...
The total South African casualties during the war was about 18,600 with over 12,452 killed – more than 4,600 in the European theatre alone. The Commonwealth War Graves commission has records of 9457 known South African War dead during World War I. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The British Empire is red on the map, at its zenith in ...
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Wars of the South African Republic (Transvaal) with black peoples: Campaign against Mampoer (Mampuru) and Mabhogo 1882–1883 [3] Campaign against Oesibeboe 1884 [3] Campaign against Massouw and Moshette 1885–1886 [3] Campaign against Masalanabo Modjadji of the Balobedu 1890–1891 [3] Malaboch War 1894 [3] Campaign against Chief Makgoba ...
Following the defeat of the Boers in the Second Anglo–Boer War or South African War (1899–1902), the Union of South Africa was created as a self-governing dominion of the British Empire on 31 May 1910 in terms of the South Africa Act 1909, which amalgamated the four previously separate British colonies: Cape Colony, Colony of Natal ...
South Africa's participation in the First World War occurred automatically when the British Government declared war on Germany in August 1914. Due to her status as a Dominion within the British Empire, South Africa, whilst having significant levels of self-autonomy, did not have the legal power to exercise an independent foreign policy and was tied to the British declaration.
South African Arms Deal; South African Army corps and branches; South African Border War; South African Constabulary; South African Defence Force; South African Light Horse; South African National Museum of Military History; South African Native Labour Corps; South African Overseas Expeditionary Force; South African Wars (1879–1915) David ...
Military history of South Africa during World War II (6 C, 10 P) O. Wars involving the Orange Free State (2 C, 3 P) R. ... Sierra Leone Civil War; South African ...