2-693-723 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Boers Firing the Veldt', 1900. Boer farmers setting fire to dry grass in the war against the British. Scene from the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) fought in what is now South Africa, between Great Britain and the independent Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (known as as the Transvaal by the British). From Coloured Lantern Slides. Junior Lecturers' Series. The Boer War of 1900: Chapter V -- Mafeking and Pretoria. [W. Butcher and Sons, London, 1900]