horseback riding in a kilt?

[Mike_Oettle]

On a point of clarification, Mark E, the Boer War (so-called) of 1880-81 is formally described in South Africa as the First Anglo-Boer War or, in Afrikaans, die Eerste Vryheidsoorlog.
It involved only the Transvaal (or the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek, as the Boer protagonists preferred to calll it) and Great Britain.
The Second Anglo-Boer War (Tweede Vryheidsoorlog) involved both the ZAR and the Oranje Vrij Staat, and began in 1899.
It ended with the annexation of the two republics by Britain as the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal Colony, annexations later denounced by the League of Nations as being illegal. (General Jan Smuts motivated for the resolution.)
Regards,
Mike

[Mark E.]

On a point of clarification, Mark E, the Boer War (so-called) of 1880-81 is formally described in South Africa as the First Anglo-Boer War or, in Afrikaans, die Eerste Vryheidsoorlog.
It involved only the Transvaal (or the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek, as the Boer protagonists preferred to calll it) and Great Britain.
The Second Anglo-Boer War (Tweede Vryheidsoorlog) involved both the ZAR and the Oranje Vrij Staat, and began in 1899.
It ended with the annexation of the two republics by Britain as the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal Colony, annexations later denounced by the League of Nations as being illegal. (General Jan Smuts motivated for the resolution.)
Regards,
Mike

You betcha, Mr. South Africa-I won't dispute your expertise in the slightest. Most of us ingnorant Yankees gonna keep calling it the Boer War #1, though.

Moral of my initial posting-If yer gonna try and ride a horse in a kilt, do it on a saddle with appropriate architecture!

Also, a lot of us over here in the con-federal states call the American civil war the War of Yankee Agression.