During one battle, this war's victors dug shallow trenches in rocky ground only for the fog to lift and show that they were not on the summit of Spy Hill; that became known as the "acre of massacre." 
During one battle, this war's victors dug shallow trenches in rocky ground only for the fog to lift and show that they were not on the summit of Spy Hill; that became known as the "acre of massacre." The mutilation of Captain Hunt in this war led to the summary execution of prisoners by Breaker Morant. In this war, the successor of Lord Roberts used (*) barbed wire and blockhouses to make grids, which were subsequently depopulated. That practice was criticized by the Fawcett Commission. The first major overseas deployment of Canadian and New Zealand troops was in this war. The victors suffered a Black Week while trying to relieve the siege of Mafeking and Ladysmith. For 10 points, name this war in which Lord Kitchener used concentration camps to house some Afrikaner farmers.
During one battle, this war's victors dug shallow trenches in rocky ground only for the fog to lift and show that they were not on the summit of Spy Hill; that became known as the "acre of massacre."
Second Anglo-Boer War [or Tweede Boerenoorlog; or Tweed Vryheidsoorlog or Tweede Boereoorlog; or Anglo-Boereoorlog; prompt on South African war; prompt on or Engelse oorlog; do not accept "First Boer War", but just "Boer War" is acceptable]