![]() ![]() Doubtful of their loyalty, the Transvaal government refused to grant them political rights. The discovery of gold in the Transvaal in 1886 resulted in the influx of a large fortune-seeking group called uitlanders (foreigners) who were mostly of British origin. ![]() The South African War had its origins in more than sixty years of strain and hostility between the British in South Africa, concentrated in their possessions of Cape Colony and Natal, and the descendants of the region’s first Dutch settlers, known as Boers (from the Dutch for farmer), centered in the more northerly independent republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. In some ways the war would be similar to the conflicts waged in the century just ending in others it would anticipate the nature of modern warfare in the bloody century to come. ![]() The South African War of 1899-1902 or, as it is more commonly known, the Boer War, occasioned Canada’s first major military expedition abroad. For Queen and Country: Canadians and the South African War, 1899-1902 Dispatches: Backgrounders in Canadian Military History Dr. ![]()
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