ONE MINUTE HISTORY - October 11, 2022

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Published on October 11, 2022 3:31:07 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqlwLUPI80k

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On this day, a world-spanning empire’s lust for gold sparked a brutal war. On October 11, 1899, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State declared war on the British Empire, beginning the Second Boer War. Eager to control the massive gold deposit that had recently been discovered in the South African Republic, the British had previously presented a list of demands to South African President Paul Kruger that would have essentially incorporated the small Afrikaner republic into the British Empire. Kruger chose to declare war instead, and the early phases of the war saw the Boers launch a successful offensive against the British Cape Colony. Eventually the tide of the war changed when the British army arrived en masse, and the conflict shifted into a protracted guerrilla war that the British ultimately won only after suffering heavy losses and committing terrible crimes against Boer civilians.