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How many regulars were there in the British Army?
249,466
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How many reservists were there in the British Army?
78,000
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Who coined the term 'Tommy'?
Rudyard Kipling
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By what year did British troops wear khaki?
1899
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When was the Royal Medical Corps created?
1898
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How many Boer men were there that could be called up to fight?
50,000 - 21,000 in the Orange Free State and 33,000 in the Transvaal Republic
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How was the Boer army organised?
Into Commandos drawn from a particular district containing 200-1000 men. Commanders elected.
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When the Boers declared war, how many British troops were in South Africa?
14,750, with further reinforcements of 22,000 about to land in Natal from India.
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Who was commander of the British troops at the start of the war?
Sir George White
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Who superseded Sir George White? When?
Sir Redvers Buller, when the full British reinforcements arrived.
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By 1 December how many British regulars did Buller command?
84,000, with most being infantry
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Who led the siege of Mafeking? What happened?
Colonel Baden-Powell; small British force held out against Boer commandos until May 1900.
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What happened in the siege of Kimberley?
British troops and the important mine owner and politician Cecil Rhodes cut off by a Boer force under General Cronje.
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What happened in the siege of Ladysmith?
Sir George White cut off with a large British force (more than 10,000) in town of Ladysmith.
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When did Gatacre meet defeat? What was the death/casualty rate?
10th December; 135 dead and 561 taken prisoner
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What happened on 11th December?
Methuen struck at Cronje at Magersfontain
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What happened on 15th December?
Buller faced defeat at Colenso, Natal.
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How many British reinforcements arrived in early 1900 from across the Empire?
30,000
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When was Kimberley relieved?
15th February 1900
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What happened on 22nd February 1900?
Cronje and 4,000 Boers surrounded and forced to surrender at Paardeberg.
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What happened on 28th February 1900?
Buller received Ladysmith.
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When did Roberts capture Bloemfontein?
March 1900.
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What happened in May 1900?
11th May - advance resumed after supply problems, Johannesburg captured at end of month.
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When did Roberts and Buller leave? Who became Commander-in-Chief in November 1900?
Autumn 1900; Kitchener.
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When was the Treaty of Vereeniging signed?
31st May 1902
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How much had the war cost the British government?
£201 million
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How many men died from enemy action?
5,774
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How many men died from their wounds and disease?
16,168
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What was the 'Soldier's wives and Children's fund'?
Sponsored by Daily Mail to support war; raised £70,000 by end of January 1900 and eventually a quarter of a million pounds.
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Why was the Daily Mail 'populist'?
Because it printed the views held by the majority of the population.
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Who set up the Daily Mail? What did he aim to do?
Alfred Harmsworth; aimed to make money by maximising sales and boosting advertising revenue.
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By the end of 1889, what was the daily circulation of the Daily Mail?
534,000
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What newspaper did Winston Churchill work for?
The Morning Post
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When was Churchill captured by Boers?
December 1899 after defending an armoured train.
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When did Lloyd-George hold his most prolific pro-Boer meeting?
Birmingham in 1901
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What position did Joseph Chamberlain hold?
Colonial Secretary - meant he was often seen as architect of war - 'Joe's war'.
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What are some examples of opposition to the Boer war?
Irish nationalists, left-wing Liberals, quakers like George Cadbury, Lloyd-George.
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When were concentration camps set up?
Summer of 1900.
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By September 1900 how many Boers were detained in concentration camps?
110,000 in 34 camps.
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How many Boers died in the camps?
27,927 including children.
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When did Emily Hobhouse visit the concentration camps?
January 1901 - wrote of her outrage at what she found to her family.
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What happened when Hobhouse returned to Britain in the spring of 1901?
A report on what she'd seen was circulated among MPs and then made public - produced outrage.
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How did the government respond to growing public concern?
Dispatched an all female committee of enquiry under formidable Millicent Fawcett. Toured South Africa from August to December and confirmed Hobhouse's claims.
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What was the death rate in camps by the time peace was negotiated?
2%
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By how many seats did the Conservatives win a majority in the 1900 election?
134
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How many men died in the Boer War?
22,000
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When was the Committee of Imperial Defence announced?
March 1903
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When did the Royal Commission report back on the war?
1903
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When was the BEF and TA created?
1907
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How many soldiers were rejected as physically unfit in the UK? How many in Manchester?
A third in Britain, 3 out of 5 in Manchester.
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When was the School Meals Act introduced?
1906
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When were medical inspections of children introduced?
1907
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When was the National Insurance Act introduced?
1911
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When was Land of Hope and Glory written? By who?
1902 - AC Benton
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Who wrote Imperialism: A Study? When?
1902 - JA Hobson
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When was the South African Bill passed? What did it create?
1909 - established Union of South Africa in 1910 as a self-governing Dominion like Australia & Canada.
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