A newspaper-style article describing the end of the Boer war, ending in British victory.

May 1902--The pent up tensions between British in Afrikaner states and the Afrikaners themselves had finally broken. The British gold prospectors moving in on Boer land, and the Boer's mistreatment of the British became too much for both sides and in 1899, the Boer's declared war. A little history of the relationship between these settlers is due. The British claimed the Cape of Good Hope in 1806. Called the "Great Trek", the Afrikaners settled beyond the Vaal …showed first 75 words of 677 total…

…showed last 75 words of 677 total…were held in concentration camps in which over 20,000 innocent people, including women and children, died. Finally, in May 1902, the Boers surrendered to the British ending the war. "The British public expected it to be over by Christmas," our third source stated, "It proved to be the longest (two and three quarter years) costliest (over 200 million pounds), the bloodiest (twenty two thousand British, twenty five thousand Boer, and twelve thousand African lives) war for Britain [since] 1815."