Beginning with the establishment of the first colony in North America in the early 17th century, britain, which covered an area of just 240,000 square miles, began a 350-year-long colonial road. In 1800, The British ruled over 1.5 million square miles of land and a population of as many as 20 million. In 1900, the territory under British rule soared to 11 million square miles, and its population reached 390 million. By the outbreak of World War I, Britain had ruled 12.5 million square miles of land and 431 million people, accounting for 1/4 of the world's total population and area at that time. Pictured here is Paulus Kruger, the leader of the First Boer War.
In December 1900, during the Battle of Magsfontein in the Second Boer War, the British Navy was bombarding Boer strongholds with artillery.
It can be said that in the era of rampant colonialism, although the European powers were carrying out military activities to divide the land, the British had always been far ahead of the countries. Without him, the British had a powerful navy in their hands. In addition, British naval bases are scattered around the world, controlling various strategic locations around the world, such as Gibraltar, Cyprus, Malta, the Cape of Good Hope, Suez, Ceylon, Singapore, Hong Kong and other places. Pictured here are British soldiers captured by the Boers, with 25-year-old Churchill on the far right, who was then the war writer for The Morning Post. Later, Churchill managed to escape back to England.
Although the vast colonies provided Britain with sufficient raw materials, places to sell goods and funds to put on the market, the larger its territory, the more the number of British soldiers could not make ends meet, coupled with the British's crazy plunder of the colonies, the turmoil it stimulated was increasing day by day, and the Boer War was the most prominent example. Pictured here are Boer soldiers posing in front of camera, and with their superb riding skills and familiarity with the geographical environment, the Boers won many victories in the early days of the war.
With the support of strong national strength, the British finally won the victory with great efforts, but such a small country caused the British to spend 3 years and pay a price of 22,000 people, and its repeated increase in troops even exceeded the total population of the Boers. After this war, the British stopped their frenzied expansion and began to turn their attention to consolidating the rule of the i.e. colonies. But the British colonies saw the weakness of the British in the Boer Wars. Thus, a new round of national liberation boom broke out. The picture shows a British soldier falling in front of the Boer line.
On 24 January 1900, the Anglo-Bursa was engaged in a battle over Spition Hill. The picture shows the bodies left by the two armies after the battle.
In March 1900, the Germans, who were trying to quell the Anglo-Boer War, were blindfolded by the Boers and taken to the negotiating ground.
Pictured here is the main force of cloth, the Afrikaners in farming clothes and carrying semi-automatic rifles.
The photo shows a large number of British soldiers wearing wooden helmets, new khaki uniforms and bayonets, and the reason for taking this photo is to send it back home to boost morale.
Pictured is a Boolean soldier.