The Rise of Anglo-Boer Antagonism

I. Cape Colony

II. “The Great Trek”

III. Gold and diamonds in the Transvaal and Orange Free State

IV. Annexation of the Transvaal, 1877

V. First Anglo-Boer War, 1880

A. Battle of Majuba Hill, 1881

VI. Restoration of independence with British suzerainty

VII. Encirclement of the Transvaal

Rhodes and the Jameson Raid

I. Cecil Rhodes and Consolidated Gold Fields

II. Zambesia/Rhodesia

III. Rhodes as Prime Minister, 1890

IV. Paul Kruger’s overtures to the Europeans

V. Uitlander dissatisfaction

A. Reform Movement

VI. Jameson Raid

VII. Kruger Telegram

Milner’s War

I. Boer Advantages

A. terrain, mauser rifles, “Long Toms,” Vickers-Maxim guns, Krupp field-pieces

II. British disadvantages

III. Sieges of Ladysmith, Kimberley, and Mafeking

IV. Buller’s command

V. “Black Week,” 10-17 December 1899

A. Magersfontein

1) “Hope better luck next time”

B. Stormberg

C. Colenso

Roberts’s War

I. Roberts and Kitchener take command

II. Buller’s victory at Tugela/Relief of Ladysmith

III. Relief of Kimberley

IV. Fall of Bloemfontein

V. Relief of Mafeking

A. Baden-Powell

VI. Annexation of Orange Free State

VII. Fall of Johannesburg, the Rand, Pretoria

Kitchener’s War

I. Guerilla Warfare

II. Scorched-Earth

III. Concentration Camps

IV. Peace of Vereeniging, May 1902