The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902

[carlos marighela]

And before anyone asks... No. Brazil and Argentina's economies were too reliant on British finance to get involved, even if they evinced the remotest interest in Venezuela.

Totally off topic but if anyone's interest has been piqued in terms of warfare in South America in this time frame try having a look at the Canudos War in Bahia. It has it all: hardy locals railing against social injustice, a wild eyed religious leader with millenarian ideas, failed expeditions getting bushwaced in the scrub, a siege and a whacking great siege gun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Canudos

[Gluteus Maximus]

And before anyone asks... No. Brazil and Argentina's economies were too reliant on British finance to get involved, even if they evinced the remotest interest in Venezuela.

Totally off topic but if anyone's interest has been piqued in terms of warfare in South America in this time frame try having a look at the Canudos War in Bahia. It has it all: hardy locals railing against social injustice, a wild eyed religious leader with millenarian ideas, failed expeditions getting bushwaced in the scrub, a siege and a whacking great siege gun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Canudos

Fantstic stuff. There are plenty of ideas there to either fight it as historical, or adapt it to another theatre.

I think it might work very well for Darkest Africa........

....and I have my own "Whacking Great Siege Gun" already 

[carlos marighela]

About a 5 minute walk from where I lived in Salvador there is a memorial to the Canudos War. Bizarre to modern sensibilities it doesn't commemorate the massacred populace of Canudos but stands as a memorial to the army.