The Second Boer War began in 1899 in the south of Africa. It was fought between the two Boer Republics and the British Empire. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to ...

Britain only had a small, though well-trained regular army. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war ...

Bill Mauldin, World War II's most famous cartoonist, is one of them. In 1943, when he was 21, Mauldin's division shipped overseas to North Africa. Mauldin had been drawing cartoons since he was a ...

The 125th anniversary of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 is marked on 11 October 2024. Also known as the South African War or the Second Boer War, the brutal conflict between the colonising forces ...

Part I of this series analyses the flawed substance of the independent panel report that led to the closure of Wilgenhof, ...

Bill Bramhall’s editorial cartoon for Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024: “Why Secret Service agents hold their hands like that.” “Praying more agents get hired.” Bill Bramhall’s editorial ...

2) at 1 p.m. a ceremony takes place in Windsor’s Jackson Park. It involves rededication of the city’s Boer War Memorial which lists the names of 48 Windsor area residents who served in a ...

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“Then, producers can use their sales figures to launch a series.” ‘Marie Curie’s Great War’ Cartoon Forum For greater sunshine and a burst of unqualified good news, one need only glance ...

Then Russia invaded Ukraine. Lynsey Addario, a photographer on assignment for The New York Times who has covered every major war and humanitarian crisis of her generation, tells Sonya’s story.

Ann Telnaes cartoon on Pope Francis comments on women in the church.