To one side in this war, Emily Hobhouse became known as the "Angel of Love" for her work trying to improve conditions for that side's women and children. A series of three losses for the other side in this war became known as the Black Week. One sieg
To one side in this war, Emily Hobhouse became known as the "Angel of Love" for her work trying to improve conditions for that side's women and children. A series of three losses for the other side in this war became known as the Black Week. One siege in this war lasted 217 days before Robert Baden-Powell's troops were relieved in Mafeking. Concentration camps and a scorched earth policy were used by Lord Kitchener in this war, which was fought against people led by Louis Botha and Paul Kruger. This war was ended by the Treaty of Vereeniging. For 10 points, name this second conflict between the British and the namesake inhabitants of two South African republics.
To one side in this war, Emily Hobhouse became known as the "Angel of Love" for her work trying to improve conditions for that side's women and children.
Second Anglo-Boer War [or Second War of Independence; or South African War before mentioned]