This Sceptred Isle: Empire would like the listeners to respond to how the British empire has affected them ... nervously entered a shadow -filled farmhouse seeking out militant Boers, and suddenly ...

In late August 1978 I was on a troop train bound for Grootfontein in Namibia on route to the Border War. I was just eighteen years old and it was a relief being out of the oppressive and abusive ...

The British Empire claimed this an outrage and went to war with the Boer republics. Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War. Credit: Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]. The Boers, mainly ...

LONDON, Dec. 11. -- The Pretoria reports of renewed fighting at Modder River originated from the fact that the British with a team of thirty-two oxen hauled a naval gun to the top of a high ridge ...

This is an opinion column. A question lingered in this tiny sportswriter brain from the moment Kalen DeBoer stepped off the plane Jan. 12 in Tuscaloosa. Simple, yet important. It was both ...

The Dutch Vryburghers, however, were not happy about this. Tensions between the Dutch and British settlers grew, as the Dutch Boers (farmers) fought to keep their slaves. Eager to rule themselves, in ...

The Zulus were of the opinion that the British allowed King Cetshwayo to return to the Zulu Kingdom with the sole purpose of having him killed. The Zulus remembered the Voortrekkers and King Mpande, ...

The Boers are affording us a magnificent object lesson on the value of volunteers in defensive warfare. They are strictly volunteers. That is to say, they are not trained at all in barracks ...

One of the biggest developments of the entire weekend came when the No. 7 Alabama Crimson Tide, who seemed to control their own destiny entering Saturday, were not just upset but dominated by a 5 ...

Previously, you needed to have the Apple Maps app on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, but now that you can access it from a browser you can use Look Around from a Windows PC if you want to (although it ...