A Brief History of The Boer Wars
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2018
- This is the brief history of the Boers. Something never really covered by anybody. The the word Boer is mispronounced, we sort of recorded it using Siri and was realised afterwards that it was incorrect. Thanks, sorry for any inconvenience
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I'm glad the Concentration camps were not left out ( as usual ) in this history. It played a major role in the Boeren surrendering.
Boeren?
Glad you said that...
40000 Brits got their asses handed to them by 4000 farmers and converted to gorilla warfare - scorched earth policy
...then the boere decided to opt for the treaty
Not really. Read Packenham's THE BOER WAR. After about a year, the British reversed the depopulation policy of moving Boer civilians into camps and instead left them out on the veldt. Since by that time camp sanitation had greatly improved, guerilla Boers in the field considered their families in British custody to be safe, while the families left on the farms in the veldt were endangered (natives, collapse of economy, food shortages). So the legacy of the camps is a mighty one for Afrikaaners, but AT THE TIME OF THE BOER SURRENDER, THE CAMPS WERE NOT AN ISSUE.
@@mconrad8243 are you British?
@@mconrad8243 A british Aristokrat wrote a Book about his People absolutly didnt commit disgustig Crimes against the Boers... ok^^
I go to a British school and the teachers always leave out the fact that boers were put in concentration camps
fugde them
'wrong'
- anyone who attends a history class
@Cult of DECC yeah, I was also taught that at school. It was pretty much emphasised.
I didn't do history as a GCSE and I don't remember being taught anything about the Empire, except for how large and "great" it was. It was absolutely whitewashed for me.
@@sleepyjessie How is it whitewashed?
Age of mythology music brings back sooo many memories
George Daratzikis ive noticed that OverlySarcasticProductions uses it too
I was like wait a second I recognize that music, it brings back so many memories, so much nostalgia.
It was the first thing I noticed!
Thought i was the only one to notice this 😂
Took me back!
So the British signed a peace treaty but invaded because of gold ....
They had plenty of other reasons mentioned in this video the main being a possible German- Boer alliance
Just like amarica and there oil
@@jamiebarnes4804 yup all about the black gold now days
@@randomname5083 nah, it was because of gold bro..
Yes!!!
Me: *DON'T SAY IT, PLEASE DON'T SAY IT!!*
Them: "Bore"
...
Me: *Deep sigh*
*Fortrekkers*
Souf Africa...
Yea. That always gets me lol. It's like "boo" but with an "r" at the the end. Boer.
@@CaesarAntinous so.... bow?
@@flyingfishie401 hard r and the oo should be like ooh
My geat-grandfather, Koot Swanepoel was interred in Aliwal-North concentration camp from the age of 10 to the age of 13, his younger brother was 7 years old when they went in and 10 when they were released. The fact that the descendants of these people are still alive can only be summarized as follows:
"Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended
themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when
Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain
of those inflexible French Huguenots who gave up home and fortune and
left their country for ever at the time of the revocation of the Edict
of Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile,
unconquerable races ever seen upon earth. Take this formidable people
and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage
men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances under which no weakling could
survive, place them so that they acquire exceptional skill with weapons
and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to
the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman, and the rider. Then, finally,
put a finer temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic
Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine
all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual, and you
have the modern Boer-the most formidable antagonist who ever crossed the
path of Imperial Britain. Our military history has largely consisted in
our conflicts with France, but Napoleon and all his veterans have never
treated us so roughly as these hard-bitten farmers with their ancient
theology and their inconveniently modern rifles.” - Arthur Conan Doyle
Dude can't tell you how that shit gets my blood up. I'm tearing up here. Dis erg vir n boerkie
@@hugomaritz692 dis hoekom ons altyd sal oorleef :D
My familly is from Dutch origin, back when the Republic invaded Portuguese Brazil. Once defeated, they made a trip inland very similar to this great trek. The only difference is that we are most catholics and non-warlike, since there are not violent native kingdoms or wild beasts. 🤣
Yeah yeah, British still stomped their asses. Brittania rules the world
@@Wonderkid44 not any more lol. Sadiq khan and his buddies rule your joke of a country now. Id ask if you were cut but you probably dont have loicense fa that. I bet youd like to spin my jaw but you aint gonna spin shot without a whisk license 😂😂😂lmfao
My great grandfather was in the Boer War, he was Irish but joined the Canadian regiment and worked with horses (his family bred Irish horses). He wrote that the Boers were some of the greatest people he had ever met.
And england basically cheated and killed tons of innocents for taking resources and territory. Then they wrote fake history, as usual.
Arthur Griffith (Irish Revolutionary) was heavily involved in fighting for the Boers during the 2nd Boer War
@@bppmurphy nope Canada sided with the empire but I appreciate his remark that we where good people even if we where him enemy
White South Africans will always divide themselves between English and Afrikaans because of this.
Rock Spiders and Sout Peels 😄 I would happen to be the latter
@@davidgrieve2565 No, rather Soutie, Soutpiel, or "Rooinek".
It was idiotic of our people to divide themselves from Britain. We had so much backup to keep our women and children safe and threw it away for independence. Why? Whats independence worth if quality of life would just be destroyed at the end of the day?
But they all look the same!!!
/s
Delaney Cloete true from an English South African
I love reading about history, but sometimes it’s nice to listen to someone explain it to you. Love this channel!
same. i have hundreds of history books in paper back and another 500 on my Kindle but still i watch all these history videos, some for different perspective, interesting animation or pictures, maybe interest me in learning more about said subject, or simplification of the major events if I don't feel like reading 500 pages.
Good history lesson. The English pronunciations of the Afrikaans/Dutch words just always feel hard on my ears.
Dat ben ik zeker met U eens
FANIE > Watch out - The souties will pronounce your name as "FENNIE" !!!
The words' No slaves' seemed to also sound hard to the Afrikaans ears
@@rdm3373 i hate it when people just assume all Afrikaans speakers are racist people who encourage slavery my parents and basically everyone i know that grew up in apartheid voted against apartheid
Hey everyone, thanks for watching! Next video...... wait for it... THE MONGOLS
MOGOL THEME USED IN CRASH COURSE STARTS PLAYING.
Read in another language
Piet Retief Delegation massacre
The Piet Retief Delegation massacreoccurred when Voortrekkers under Piet Retiefmigrated into Natal in 1837 and negotiated a land treaty in February 1838 with the ZuluKing Dingane. Upon reconsideration, Dingane doublecrossed the Voortrekkers, killing the delegation of 100 including their leader Piet Retief on 6 February 1838. The land treaty was later found in Piet Retief's possession. It gave the Voortrekkers the land between the Tugela River and Port St. Johns. This event eventually led to the Battle of Blood River and the eventual defeat of Dingane.
Please put in how the Khwarazmid Empire senselessly provoked the Mongol invasion by being assholes to Mongol diplomats and traders.
darn crash course jokes
I know this is 6 months late but...hahaha 😂
Afrikaaner here, thanks for this video. Was fun watching it!
That's not even how you spell Afrikaner, so I doubt it.
@@nuckingfuts3204... Well Afrikaans is his main language so I can see why he said Afrikaaner
It's Afrikaner and I'm true, thank you for this video/ Dankie dat jy hierdie film op RUclips gesit het (That's Afrikaans)
@@whoop4255 Afrikaans is also my mother tongue, and it's spelled Afrikaner. Look it up for yourself. Please don't make stupid comments when you are ignorant regarding the subject.
@MAREX 115 Jy tel nie as n man nie, want jy is n moffie.
After watching a couple of videos on the Boers War, this is by far the clearest. Very well done.
my great great grandmother escaped a British concentration camp pregnant with my great grand mother on hoerseback in the dead of night. true family history
Diddums. From a Brit.
@@teviottilehurst Rooinek!, from a Boer....
@@teviottilehurst Sassanach louse and coward!
these are true, the hewish are all lies
them brits again?.......
Also interesting to note Winston Churchill was a prisoner of war in Pretoria where he eventually escaped from the Boers by swimming across the Bobbejaans River.
@@chrisreynecke3129 Thanks. That's right. In Afrikaans that would be Apies Rivier
@@chrisreynecke3129 Thanks. That's right. In Afrikaans that would be Apies Rivier
He also had the help of Boere in ww2 helping him with tactics
I'm doing a video on his captor that would later turn out to be his advisor in the war cabinet
Artillery only you say?
Hmmmm...... 🤔
Its a hoi4 joke
ISorrowproductions
Isorrow daddy
BannerLord when?
@@fetts4ck849 thx for pointing it out, Sherlock
God I love history in the 1800s through early 1900.. especially Napoleanic times. I feel that the events of and after Napoleon basically set the stage for the start of WW1 which then lead to WW2 having a huge impact of geopolitics as we know them today. But these can't be learned without understanding the age of discovery and the Imperial colonization by all the great powers of that time. It's rather amazing to me that the fact a group of Dutch farmers settling in South Africa over 300 years ago still has an effect on local and geopolitics in that area today
Much more complicated than I expected. Thanks for the info.
Ek is n boer
Estelle Brandt dis n goeie ding
Het is ik ben een boer
Selfde hier
@@abel5695 nie in Afrikaans nie
Ik praat nederlands, maar mijn vriend kom uit George, ZA
I'm south african and the British just tick me off, they act so innocent yet they were the ones who caused so much of the strife and suffering in the world, also the way this guy says boer 😂
Ngl most brits won't know anything about this. It should be taught in schools tho
This short video taught me more in 6 minutes than the 2 hour documentary that I struggled through yesterday. Important to me was the infusion of the history of African colonization by much of Europe and how the Boer Wars were just one part of a much larger story. Great job!
Just want to say that this is a really good channel. You guys deserve more subscribers.
Respect to the Boers from Ireland 🇮🇪
We love the Irish too!
Respect to the Boers, really??? The Brits were no angels but did you read the bit where they handed back the East Indies and the Boers disliked the British because they had banned slavery? Are you also forgetting that the Boers descendants then introduced the system of Apartheid.All countries have done things to be ashamed of. Did you also listen to the bit about Shaka Zulu and the expanding empire which caused other African tribes to fell or be wiped out (between 1 and 5 million?).You stick to your cliched victim narratives. We're all guilty and yet we're not, its history. I'm descended from Irish Catholics, Scots, Welsh and English. Does that make me a victim or a villain? Neither, its in the past!
@@mersey9956 Superb comment👍
@@mersey9956 you are wrong. Most black people were murdered by King Shaka himself. Did you know that? Also more black were murdered and opressed by black people during apartheid. Black people are responsible for their own suffering. Look at ALL the black countries. None of them thrive because of one greedy asshole. It was the same in those days too. There are more than 10 different black tribes, languages and cultures in south africa. You still think the boere did everything? Look at the facts. There were also less poverty, far less murders and 88% ( not sure about this statistic but it's close) employed black people. I'm a boer and there are TONS of black people who say they prefer apartheid instead of where we are now. Apartheid is not what you think. Get your facts together buddy. Apartheid was simply created because the boers did not want to ruin the black people's cultures. We felt it is better for them not to be "white washed". So we gave them their own land. 2 of those lands worked out if you look at Swaziland and Lesotho. Which proves they were not opressed in the way you think. It also proves that cultures between blacks differ and they murder more of their own people than the white people ever did. The black people were slaves but remember that they were slaves because they were part of " the enemy/ king shaka's people" in that time which is the best offer you can give someone who is foreign. All of the things I mentioned above was also stated and proved by a BLACK MAN who works at the university of cape town.
@@werneresterhuizen2858 finally someone with some common sense...
Proud to be an Afrikaner. Also love the Age of Mythology music
Prostagama
proud of apartheid?
@@leehane4382 Germans = Proud nazis
Israelis, Americans, British, Russians, French, Japanese = Proud colonizers
What else?
@@coldwarconflicts8926 If it weren't for the British and Americans we wouldn't have half the stuff we have these days. The Japanese were hellbent on destruction and tyranny. The Russians were just being Russians. The French contributed somewhat. But they did go a bit over the top with Napoleon. And bob's your uncle.
Oh yeah the Israelis - don't know how their colonizers
The regiment in which I belong to (Lord Strathconas Horse Royal Canadian) first overseas wars were against the Boers, and were in fact part of a private military, later annexed by the government of Canada.
3:48 If only Anakin Skywalker watched this part
was looking for this comment
Great sum up, thanks for getting some of our history out there
The music @5:00 suddenly threw me back to 2002... sitting on my old PC playing AOM without a care in the world.
Thanks for that.
POV:
you got recommended the video with the title "Last Man Standing Australian Boer War Anzac Light Horse Veteran"
you never heared of this war, and as a guy who is interrested in wars and knows many things about WW2 you went ahead and looked up this video.
Age of mythology music 😂😂😂
Thank you for an accurate description. God bless
Top notch video, lad. Cheers.
As a black South African white South Africans can be divided into two groups those of Afrikaans decent and those of British decent but over the years they've intermingled through marriage and such so what you end getting is South African Europeans who speak Afrikaans as a first language and those who speak English as first English.
true, but there is still a great deal of Boer folk. Though as said, due to intermingling, the number is far less.
history is my favorite subject
Same.
Same
@Malcom Canning you gender studies major mate?
Your moms my favorite subject
Why watch this shite then?
I love the Age Of the Mythology music in the background! Great video.
I personally appreciate this video as it applies a very objective and insightful perspective on this history
Highground, highground everywhere. - Darth Vader, in South Africa.
Dis verby Anikan ek het die hoegrond
I live in the netherlands but i never knew about this history 😅 great video
Jeroen Both
Good, it has fuckall to do with you.
Loved the video keep doing what your doing
I love your videos, very amazing and great animation
Nightshark Thank you means a lot
Thank you for making this video. This isn't taught in our schools at all, and it's important to know your history. The only history of die Anglo-Boer oorlog was told to me by my parents and grandparents.
Helaas krijg je dat als je op school in het angelsaksisch les krijgt...
same here
I don't think South African schools are teaching about The Anglo Boer wars, The Great Trek, Jan Van Riebeeck etc. I am 45 and learnt about those things. I am English - yes I understand Dutch / Afrikaans. Nowadays, at least the state schools seem to focus only on Apartheid, Mandela and De Klerk. I did learn about Apartheid as well - date it started, the various race laws, prime ministers etc. I learnt some Zulu but not enough. I long for a South Africa where we can have schools that teach a well rounded South African and International history, languages to profiency, descent level Maths, Science and Computers. And to get rid of those dastardly uniforms lol - another mark from the British! 😂😂😂
the background music is from Age of Mythology lol
5:10 LOL - there are so many memes here. Both Artillery Only from ISP as well as the other options from Sid Meiers Civilization V! xD Well done, made me chuckle!
Thank you very much for your posting of this video. As a South African, I wonder how many Brits knows about the history about the Boer War and the damage they have caused. Even the Royals refused to apologize.... 😢😢
Really liked the video and the Age of Mythology soundtrack, that quite distracted me xD
You gotta love those Boers !
So two people fighting over other people's land thinking it's there's 🤔🧐
The Boer have survived a lot and we will survive the civil war aswell.Bring it on .
Boermanskap
Your all racist loosers. I hope you all get tied and fried to your barn doors. Sweet justice
@@chrisclark719 I mean that's like saying all blacks are criminals because their government representatives are.. smh you racist!
@@LB_die_Kaapie doesn't even make sense
@@chrisclark719 Your spelling and grammar doesn't make sense. I hope your country gets raped and burned because of the multiple famines and genocides you inflicted around the world. Who's more racist, the Boer people confined to South Africa who oppressed but did not commit genocide? Or the British who committed genocide against natives in Canada, Australia, famines in India, Ireland etc? You're living in ignorance.
why are the Native Africans considered hostile?
Good question.
Love to Boers from UK
Love to Orange and Transvaal from the Imperial Palace! :)
Het meer voud van boer is boeren.
@@abel5695 Ja maar in Engels gebruiken ze s voor meervoud. Weer zoiets waar ze een buitenlandse taal mixen met hun taal.
Lol funny
CynicalCloud Probably time to get over that one.
Everyone: Oh Shit The Australians Are Tough!
The Boer: Is ek a fokin grappie vir jou!(Am I a fucking joke to you!)
Good summary. Nice to step back and get a quick refresher of events. Always thought the British red uniforms were a crazy idea. They did look good in the Zulu film, but at least they ditched them by WW1.
The boers opposed the british annexation of 1870's from the beginning. They didn't seek the protection of the british but knew they could not fight a two front war.
Great video though.
Long live the Dutch Boers in South Africa !!
Boers are a mixture of French Huguenots, Dutch, and German
Didn't think you'd get SA history correct, great video
Interresting stuff, i live in south africa and here are many historical places i havent even visited yet. See doctor Chris Barnard did the first heart transplant at the mofat church near kuruman northen cape area. Good show lad, liked and subed.
And we won the Rugby World Cup 2019 - it was Anglo-Boer War 3 and we won!
they got lucky?
Thanks for including the concentration camps! Its so rare to see the truth these days.
Love the AOM background music!
I love the use of age of empires music. Seems rather fitting.
Lol that's what i caught
Forgot to mention the bittereinde boere who fought till the end. And the role farm workers and black south africans played in the war. Also wished you’d expanded more on the verskroeide aarde beleid. But anyway enjoyed seeing south african history being acknowledged
My great grandpa was a boer
I am a boer
@@thatsmadcrazy8953 oi piss off with that kak vlag of you glorified nazis
@@thatsmadcrazy8953 and you're proud of what you did to the boere? Please leave.
@@H.P778 No idea why I said that 4months ago and I'm sorry but the United Kingdom fought the nazis
@@miac1974 No and I'm not sure why I said that 4months ago and I'm sorry what the British did there was horrible
very helpful video, thank you
Villebois De Mareuil was one of the most famous French voluntary in the boer side, his history is very interesting ! A lot of volunteers from everywhere fights in the boer side !
My great grandmother lost several children in the concentration camp where her family was held. She told her surviving children that what happened in the camps was nothing but genocide.
Thanks for the video. Just a correction, it is General Koos De la Rey, not Kroos.
Nice summary!
Hey I really like your videos, I was wondering if you could do one on the short lived German colonial empire
where is the Boer Vs EFF war history? oh wait its still to come 🤔
More like everyone vs BLF
You did pronounce some stuff wrong like boer (B oo (like book) r)
The AoM music got my nostalgia gland pumpin'
Thanks that you putt Boere videos on utube
"De La Rey, De La Rey . . ."🎶
beutiful Song
haha the music, i was wondering the whole time from where i know it ^^
Age of Empires of course 11
Love the Age of Mythology music btw, suits it well
Video: a brief history of the Boer war Video: starts with a introduction explaining the age of discovery
One also has to recognize that the Boers were Chrisian people and their faith carried them through all these hardships; and still does...
Boars were racists. They upheld the apartheid system in SA. Nothing Christian about that. Read the scriptures. Oh sorry, God is on the side of the whites 😂
"faith carried them through all these hardships"
Err, no. That would be the guns and knowledge of the terrain that comes from a home field advantage. I very much doubt the baby Jesus materialised on the battlefield to redirect bullets.
@@teviottilehurst oh you know so little about history young one
Their form of Christianity is disgusting. They believe other races are the beasts of the earth. Nothing blessed about them. One could say their hardships are of their own making.
@@teviottilehurst > There are no BOARS in South Africa, and stop throwing God's Name around to suit your stupidity.
Fun Fact: General Piet Joubert was my great great grandfather... yes I'm serious.
Sarel cilliers is mine!
AH Stander here
Thanks for such a short, yet informative video. Never learned about it in school, just hear bits and pieces here and there. Thanks for confirming that Britain was entirely justified, as I hoped.
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The most expensive and most embarrassing war ever for Britain up to this day. Approx 19000 Boers against 500.000 btitish.
Any other South Africans here got that realization of that one song 'de la ray'?
Excellent informative video
People like saying its because slavety was abolished, partly yes but mostly because britain forced the Boer to collect the compensation in london which was not an option so they moved.
Make Zimbabwe Rhodesia again
its a video about the boers.
Fuck Rhodesia
Good one Danny archer
Yes
AKA Make South Africa Boer Concentration Camps Again
That old school Age of Mythology music though
Good video, deserves more views.
Thank you, by the way i love your profile pic!
That age of Mythology soundtrack in the background brings back way too many memories man
Damn red coats!
You left out the bit where the Boers OBLITERATED the Zulu tribe ending the Zulu conquest permanently after 300 Boers decimated more that 15 000 Zulus in a Brilliant defensive strategy at the Battle of Blood River.
Not part of the Boer Wars.
True
@@philipjooste9075 It does however provide context for the effortless British annex of the area east to the Frees State (that used to be the Zulu Kingdom).
If by "brilliant defensive strategy" you mean bring guns while the other side has spears.
@@mconrad8243 300 vs 15000 even with muskets, which by the way wasn't automatic but had to be refilled with gunpowder and then the bullets. 15 000 men can easily overpower 300 even if the 300 had guns, especially guns that weren't automatic. The real feat of this battle was indeed the brilliant defence strategy of how they placed their cover and fortifications.
Fantastic video love history ☺️
Love the AoM background music.
Age of mythology music
As a Dutch person I'm proud of the Boers.
Just dont read into history between 1940 and 1994 then i dont think you will be so proud.
Edit: The 'Boers' or Afrikaners were in charge.
@@playboicartiismydad4842 I said I was proud of the Boers, not South Africa.
@@kongschlong6567 not more than me being proud of my British Empire you little Dutch person. Rule Britannia 🇬🇧
@@kongschlong6567 > I said I was proud of the Boers, not South Africa.
You should be!
@@teviottilehurst dood tot britanje
The boer war actually divided Canada along linguistic lines since the French Canadians had no interest in financing another war for the British empire especially once they had learned of the similar political condition the Boers were in. Economic, political and linguistic domination by another colonial power. Boer nationalism actually forced the British empire to recruit soldiers from everywhere in the colonies and English Canadians jingoists would regularity chide and racially slur French Canadians in media and parliamentary debates for blocking military aid. Wilfrid Laurier, Canada’s first French speaking prime minister ended up financing Canada’s participation much to the dismay of French Canadians which eventually fed into the anti-conscription movements of ww1 and ww2 knowing full well they would be cannon fodder for the British and the English Canadian military elite. This eventually led to Quebec independence movements in the 60s 70s 80s and 90s.
100 years later, the Boer wars still had repercussions across the planet.
I love the AOM background music!
is this the age of mythology music in the background ?
Yes
Yeah even other Europeans were against each other for a while even in South Africa
Europeans have been fighting each other across the world for hundreds of years. Which is why every country was conquered, often just to stop the other guy from getting it.
Love the Age of Mythology background music ;)
This is so helpful to study with