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A Boer guerrillero in fight order (Hulton-Deutsch Collection
Corbis)
The Boer soldiers were for the largest part farmers who
had taken the weapons as voluntary.
English heavy artillery used during the defense of the
cities from the attacks of the Boer commandos. The technologically more advanced
weapons were tested during this conflict (Corbis).
An English military hospital in South Africa in 1900. In
this war the number of mutilated soldiers who survived to the battleground wounds
overcame for the first time the number of the casualties. (Corbis).
Boer Prisoners of War during a lunch. Photograph taken
in 1901.