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Month: December 2018

Yeovil and the Boer War

Yeovil and the Boer War

YEOVIL AND THE BOER WAR On 12 October 1899, following years of tension in South Africa, war broke out between the Boer Republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State and Great Britain. Within a short time, the Boers had British forces bottled up in Kimberley, Ladysmith and Mafeking and for many months bloody battles would be fought as our army sought to raise the sieges and defeat the Boers. Although the national and local newspapers were full of reports…

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