The First Anglo-Boer war

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The First Anglo-Boer war

The First Anglo-Boer is also known as the First Transvaal War of Independence because the conflict arose between the British colonizers and the Boers from the Transvaal Republic or Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR). The Boers had some help from their neighbours in the Orange Free State.
 
There were several causes of the First Anglo-Boer War.
 •The expansion of the British Empire.
 •Problems within the Transvaal government.
 •The British annexation of the Transvaal.
 •The Boer opposition to British rule in the Transvaal.
 
The 4th Earl of Carnarvon was the British Secretary of State for the Colonies under Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who was premier from 1868 to 1880. At the time the British government wanted to expand the British Empire.
 
Carnarvon wanted to form a confederation of all the British colonies, independent Boer republics and independent African groups in South Africa under British control. By 1876 he realised that he would not be able to achieve his goal peacefully. He told Disraeli that: "By acting at once, we may ... acquire ... the whole Transvaal Republic after which the Orange Free State will follow."
 
He was prepared to use force to make the confederation a reality, a fact that was proved by the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879.

The tabletop was set and the Boers enter the battlefield from the north, they had heard that a british camp was nearby and they wanted to teach the Brits a lesson, rules used are the Victorian Steel, 7 turns for the Boers or the British brigade to win, the hills would be the main objectives in the battle, who controls the hills would proberly win the game, as the shoot and fall back would give cover from the hill tops.

http://www.victorian-steel.com/

First turn the Boers won the dice to go first, they had a longer distance to travel to the hill tops but they had horse


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Boer wagon with supplies


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The Boer cavalry carrying the flags of the old Afrikaner Free States, the Boers carried flags to battles and a number were captured by the British during both wars.


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British camp morning roll call


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The sick being well treated (not)


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Time for sight seeing


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Boer column


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Turn three map movements, the Boers continue to win initiative and advanced quickly to both hills, the British player at first decided to push his full brigade onto one battalion of Boers and give the left hill top to the Boer cavalry, this proved a bad mistake for the player.


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Lots more photos of the battle on the main website in the gallery at http://www.victorian-steel.com/

[Golgotha]

Fantastic to see First Anglo Boer War as opposed to the Second, like the addition of giraffes.

[nevermore]

Cheers, but what a bugger to paint up