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South African War

BelligerentsUnited Kingdom and EmpireCape ColonyNatal ColonyBasutolandBechuanalandRhodesiaIndiaCeylonCanadaNew ZealandAustraliaSouth African RepublicOrange Free StateCapeBoersForeign volunteersAustraliaAustria-HungaryBelgiumDenmarkFranceGermanyGreeceIrelandItalyNetherlandsPolandRussiaSweden-NorwayUnited StatesCommanders and leadersRobert Gascoyne-CecilJoseph ChamberlainAlfred MilnerFrederick RobertsWilliam RobertsonPaul MethuenRedvers BullerHerbert KitchenerRobert Baden-PowellHerbert PlumerAndrew Wauchope†Penn Symons (DOW)Edward Woodgate†John FrenchThomas KennyWilliam OtterSam SteeleFrançois LessardWalter TunbridgePaul KrugerKoos de la ReyLouis BothaSchalk BurgerPiet CronjéPiet Joubert†Jan SmutsLucas MeyerJohannes Kock†Adolf SchielHendrik Prinsloo†Joachim Fourie†Jacobus SnymanSarel Oosthuizen†Ferdinandus Potgieter†Jan KempCamillo RicchiardiMartinus SteynChristiaan de WetNaas Ferreira†Jan OlivierCornelius WesselsPetrus LiebenbergStrengthImperial:365,693Native African auxiliaries:100,000Colonial:82,742In total:448,435Boer Commandos:25,000 (Transvaal Boers)15,000 (Free State Boers)6–7,000 (Cape Boers)Native African auxiliaries:10,000Foreign volunteers:5,400+In total:87,365Casualties and losses 22,092 dead75,430 returned home sick or wounded934 missing2,006 capturedTotal: 101,290 6,189 dead24,000 captured (sent overseas)110 missing21,256 bitter-enders surrendered (at the end of the war)Total: 51,555Civilian casualties:46,370 fatalities26,370 Boer women and children died in concentration camps20,000+ Indigenous Africans of the 115,000 interned in separate concentration camps.The Second Boer War was a conflict fought between 1899 and 1902 between the British Empire and the Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over Britain's influence in Southern Africa.

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