NOUN
- either of two wars: the first when the Boers fought England in order to regain the independence they had given up to obtain British help against the Zulus (1880-1881); the second when the Orange Free State and Transvaal declared war on Britain (1899-1902)
How To Use Boer War In A Sentence
- I missed Matata's sixth sense and the Boer war rifle.
- They meant the Boer War, recalled by Francis from boyhood, concluded twelve years earlier. DARE CALL IT TREASON
- This wall plaque is worth about £120 - Boer War items are quite collectable.
- A memorial to men who lost their lives in the Boer War a century ago was rededicated in glorious sunshine in York.
- The word jingoism originated from a music hall ditty of the Boer War: "We don't want to fight", it ran, "but by jingo if we do, we have got the men, we've got the guns, we've got the money too. The Unreasonable Man
- I missed Matata's sixth sense and the Boer war rifle.
- So that it was somehow not so much of a shock, she was in a way prepared, when three years later, in the Boer War, her beloved Guy died. THE GOLDEN LION
- Before long his regimen had been adopted by soldiers training for action in the Boer War and immortalised in fiction by James Joyce's peregrinatory protagonist Leopold Bloom. Evening Standard - Home
- Sir William said that, in the army's centenary year, we mourn all the men and women who have died in the course of its service, from the Boer War to Vietnam and in other peacekeeping duties and conflicts.
- He served in the Second Boer War, and in 1903 was posted to India, where he was able to indulge a passion for mysticism and the occult.
