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Definition of Boer war
1. Noun. Either of two wars: the first when the Boers fought England in order to regain the independence they had given up to obtain British help against the Zulus (1880-1881); the second when the Orange Free State and Transvaal declared war on Britain (1899-1902).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boer War
Literary usage of Boer war
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"... at the close of the eighteenth century. May its promise find as full fruition !
CAPTAIN JOHN ADAMS, MISSING AN INCIDENT OF THE boer war BY DR. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"THE FIRST YEAR OP THE boer war. 1. The War in South Africa; prepared in the
Historical section of the Great General Staff, Berlin. ..."
3. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1902)
"The Anglo-boer war of 1899-1900. Cape Town, 1899, etc. obi. 8°. __ 1 SI,».
ft, CECIL (E.) On the .... 31. story of the British-boer war from the Boer side. ..."
4. Dictionary of Historical Allusions by Harbottle, Thomas Benfield, d. 1904 (1904)
"It has taken a leading part in Cape politics, generally in opposition to British
rule, and during the boer war of 1899-1902 gave strong evidence of ..."
5. National and Social Problems by Frederick Harrison (1908)
"IX THE boer war (December 1899) The boer war raised so many of the questions
treated in previous sections, and illustrated so clearly the evils of vicious ..."
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