Thanks for the tip Anthonys. I knew nothing of South Africa. I had looked up the origin of the American Baseball League, which was renamed from the Western League to the American League on October 11, 1899, and which happened to be coincident to war being declared in the region of South Africa. The American news article on the "State of War" was somewhat vague, at least to me. ... My goal was to get to April of 1901, the inaugural season of the American League as a Major League, and begin posting daily contemporary clips of world news coincidental with the baseball season.Anthonys wrote:Please be more accurate - South Africa did not exist until 1910.
War existed between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (South African Republic), with Kruger dragging the Oranje-Vrijstaat (Orange Free State) into the war.
6/1/1910, South Africa a Nation
6/3/1910, South African Union
6/8/1910, The South Africa Question
1885 Map of the South Africa Region, Wikipedia
The Boer Wars, Australia
German South-West Africa, Wikipedia
Bechuanaland Protectorate, Wikipedia
Matabeleland, Wikipedia
Transvaal Colony, Wikipedia
South African Republic, Wikipedia
Paul Kruger, President of the South African Republic, Wikipedia
Photo, State President Paul Kruger at His Fourth Inauguration, Pretoria, 1898
Photo, Boer General Peter De Wet, 1900
Second Boer War, Wikipedia
Excerpt: The Second Boer War (Dutch: Tweede Boerenoorlog, Afrikaans: Tweede Vryheidsoorlog or Tweede Boereoorlog) was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic) and the Orange Free State. It ended with a British victory and the annexation of both republics by the British Empire; both would eventually be incorporated into the Union of South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire, in 1910. ... The conflict is commonly referred to as The Boer War but is also known as the South African War outside South Africa, the Anglo-Boer War among most South Africans, and in Afrikaans as the Anglo-Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog ("Second War of Liberation" or lit. "Second Freedom War") or the Engelse oorlog (English War). ... The Second Boer War and the earlier, much less well known, First Boer War (December 1880 to March 1881) are collectively known as the Boer Wars.
Photo, Boer Commandos at Spioenkop
Siege of Mafeking, Wikipedia
Photo, Scorched Earth Policy, British Burning Boer Farmhouse to Deny Sanctuary to Guerrillas
Battle of Paardeberg, Wikipedia
The Boer War, 1899-1902, The British Empire
Churchill's Capture, Imprisonment, & Escape, The Boer War, The British Empire
Battle of Bothaville, Wikipedia
Photo, Boer Troops Firing Artillery
Battle of Groenkop, Wikipedia
Photo, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell & Staff, Who Tied Down the Boers While Britain Mobilized
Lord Kitchener, Spartacus Educational
The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener, By Viscount Reginald Baliol Brett Esher, Copyright 1921
Life of Lord Kitchener, Volume 1, By Sir George Arthur, Copyright 1920
Life of Lord Kitchener, Volume 2, By Sir George Arthur, Copyright 1920
Life of Lord Kitchener, Volume 3, By Sir George Arthur, Copyright 1920
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Wikipedia
Stellaland, Wikipedia
Swaziland, Wikipedia
Mozambique, Wikipedia
Zulu Kingdom, Wikipedia
Anglo-Zulu War, Wikipedia
The Boer People, Wikipedia
KwaZulu-Natal, Wikipedia
Natalia Republic, Wikipedia
Battle of Blood River, Wikipedia
Colony of Natal, Wikipedia
Basutoland, Wikipedia
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Orange Free State, Wikipedia
Afrikaans, a West Germanic Language, Spoken Natively in South Africa & Namibia, Offshoot of Several Dutch Dialects; Wikipedia
Griqualand West, Wikipedia
Griqualand East, Wikipedia
Cape Colony, Wikipedia
Battle of Blaauwberg, Wikipedia
Battle of Muizenberg, Wikipedia
Dutch Cape Colony, Wikipedia
Dutch East India Company, Wikipedia
Photo, Stretcher-Bearers, Indian Ambulance Corps During Boer War, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Middle Row, 5th from Left
10/11/1899, Balfour Declares Crisis in South Africa Due to Rash Policy of Boer Government
10/11/1899, So. African Counsel in London Charges England's Alleged Pacification of So. Africa Actually Causes Perpetual Unrest
10/11/1899, Pro-Boer Rally in New York Resolves that Great Britain Does not Have Right of Intervention in South African Republic
10/11/1899, Boer Ultimatum
10/11/1899, Situation Becoming More Critical By the Hour, Many Whites Proceeding to Border to Fight for the Transvaal
10/11/1899, The British Reply
10/11/1899, U.S. Will Look After British Interests in Transvaal in the Event of War
10/11/1899, Kruger's Action
10/11/1899, London Dispatch Says Kruger Found it Impossible to Hold Back His Peasant Warriors & Bought on War Without Delay
10/11/1899, Boers Patrolling Laing's Nek
10/11/1899, Member of Cape Colony Parliament on Pleasure Tour of U.S. Believes War Will Not Last Long
10/11/1899, British Troops in Natal
10/11/1899, Boers Fighting Strength Overrated
10/11/1899, Cape Premier Supports Boers
10/11/1899, Transvaal Pres. Krueger Thanks U.S. for Sympathy, Declares War Is Fitting End to British Fraud & Force in So. Africa
10/11/1899, British Diplomatic Agent at Pretoria Rumored to Have Been Assassinated
10/11/1899, London Charges Boers Did not Wait for Expiration of Ultimatum Before Crossing Border
10/11/1899, Cape Town Confident
10/11/1899, German Detachment Posts Big Gun on Free State-Natal Border
10/11/1899, British Governor & High Commissioner for South Africa Issues Proclamation Warning Against Treason
10/12/1899, Colonial Warriors Needed to Fight in South Africa Due to Overbearing Insolence & Tyrannical Injustice of the Boers
10/12/1899, Orange Free State Troops Cross Border & Advance on Ladysmith, Boers Enter Natal, Basutos Becoming Restless
10/12/1899, Dispatch from Ladysmith Says War Has Begun by the Boers in Natal
10/12/1899, Autonomous Boer Government Wants Full Sovereignty & Independence from England
10/12/1899, The Story of the Last Boer War
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