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1
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Why are heliographs so important?

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heliographs were used to communicate more efficiently during the war.

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give and example of when heliographs were used

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Buller used them during black week while telling white to surrender, but the surrender never happened

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who supplied the Boers with their weapons

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Germany, friendly farms also supplied the weapons and ammunition

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4
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list some criteria for the boer war

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motivation, success, equipment, attitude, training, supplies

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what was the British opinion on the Boers

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the British admired the boers because of their motivation and their instinctive fighting

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what is a deal breaking criteria? (example)

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Motivation

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what style of fighting do the Boers use

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Instinctive fighting, sneaky tactics, led by motivation

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what year was Black week and the seiges

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1899

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9
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name one historian that wrote a book on the Boer war

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Thomas Peackenham

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10
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why did the Boers commit to their seiges

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fully just to humiliate the British and to starve them in their own territories

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what was Bullers plan A?

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move his army as one big large fighting force to attack to Boers

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what was Bullers plan B and why was he criticised

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Buller split his army into 3 to take the three beseiged town

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13
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name the three seiges

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margesfontein, stormberg, colenso

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14
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who does Buller accidently kill at Colenso

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Roberts son

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15
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how did Roberts son die to Colenso?

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went to go retrieve his weapon under Bullers instruction and was shot

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16
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how many was imprisoned at stormberg

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600

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17
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how many died at Margersfontein

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948

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18
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how did the Boers get alerted of the British presence

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knocking over tin can traps

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in defence of Buller, what was the map situation

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Buller was given outdated maps, the river has also been forded so it was deeper than intended is men drowned

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what is in Ladysmith that needed to be protected

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lots and lots of british guns and british inhabitants

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21
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how many British died at Colenso

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1,138

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22
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how many Boers were injured during Colseno

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only 7 injured

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23
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what was the intention of Spoin Kop

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to restore his reputation

24
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what was the Boer war an early example of

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Early trench warfare

25
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what were the British infantry often referred to as

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Tommy Atkins

26
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defence of buller

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out of date maps, outnumbered and not enough men, not enough resources, not enough training

27
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who does Roberts appoint as his scout

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Frederick Vernon

28
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how did roberts change as tactics

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easy wins whenever he can to help demoralise the Boers, the reverse of WWI

29
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who was put in support of the supply chains

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Kitchener

30
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how was Roberts critized?

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roberts used to underfeed his men, he also had many diseased men, scorched earth policy

31
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what did Roberts have that Buller didnt

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armoured trains, more troops that were better trained, better supply lines, better recon, kitchener as a support

32
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what did baden powel do to deceive the Boers

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fake land mines, fake guns, moving the cannons to make it seem that they have ore weapons than they actually do, send an armoured train and run over the Boers, use the African public as an accessory which helped gain troop numbers.

33
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who created scorched earth policy

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Roberts

34
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who was critical of Roberts

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Kitchener, this is because he took home lots of men and the war wasnt over

35
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what did Roberts assume phase 3 is

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Just mopping up the rest of the Boer population, admin

36
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what is kitchener overly good at

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admin and control of troops

37
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what happened at Paardeberg

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Kitchener was in charge, it goes horribly wrong and there was embarrassing large losses and Roberts has to take over eventhough he was deathly ill

38
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in phase 3, how did the boers supply their weapons

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local population

39
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what happened in phase 3 that was a moral dilema

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scorched earth, the first concentration camps that killed thousands of civilians

40
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what were kitcheners three policies

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blockhouses, scorched earth, concentration camps

41
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how did kitchener justify scorched earth

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he states that the civilian population are the ones providing the weapons so they are also roles in this war, they have more and he had to take care of the situation

42
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sophies levisuer’s argument

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it was right to round up and kill the boer population because they were helping the war

43
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what was cambell bannermans opinion on the concentration camps

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it changed him to being antiwar (LIMPS change their opinions)

44
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did MPs change tehir opinions because of the camps

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Yes, not even conservative MPs agreed with the Briish camps

45
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name one report that has changed the view point on the war

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Emily Hobbhouse report (manchester guardian)

46
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were blockhouses effective

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yes, probably the least ethically debatable, they managed to entrap the Boers. but this was very men heavy which lead less men to being in the camps

47
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support for the Boer war criteria

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demographics, long term impacts, geographics

48
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who was braker-morant?

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he was a Australian soldier who got executed for killing Boer civilians. which was a suspicious situation

49
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who was Bertha Synge

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she was a good reflection upon the war, despite hearing the news

50
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which newspaper is never supportive of the war

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the manchester guardian

51
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what do you call extreme nationalism

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jingoism

52
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why are the daily mail and the daily express widening the demographic?

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they were the first newspaper to have images, like a modern tabloid which helps widen demographics to the middle class

53
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what was churchills view on the war

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churchill was proud of the army and how hard they were working, but he was a soldier and he ultimately had a respect for the Boers

54
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what was the political response of the war

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originally: very supportive

end of the war: having a ‘stop the war committee’ which show the sever lack of support

55
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what was Emily Hobhouses initial mission

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her initial mission was to see and visit the camps to just hand out sanitary items but found the horrid camp conditions

56
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what was the death rates of the of the camps by the end of the war

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the death rates were 2% (less than the average dates in glasgow)

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