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1902
BRITAIN WINS BOER WAR
Generous terms finally secure the Boers’ surrender after three years of brutal conflict in Africa
The brutal and extended war for dominance on the Cape of Africa drew to a close this year with South Africa ravaged by a ‘scorched earth’ policy undertaken by the British. The civilian Boer population was in concentration camps that had been widely condemned as inhumane in Britain and abroad. Militarily, it was taking Lord Kitchener half a million men to hold down a few thousand Boer guerrillas who refused to surrender.
The war had
