द्वितीय बोअर युद्ध (अफ्रीकान्स भाषा में : Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, शाब्दिक अर्थ  'द्वितीय स्वतन्त्रता संग्राम्', 11 अक्टूबर 1899 – 31 मई 1902) ब्रिटिश साम्राज्य और दोनों बोअर रिपब्लिकों के बीच दक्षिणी अफ्रीका पर अधिकार को लेकर हुआ था। इसे 'बोअर युद्ध', 'ट्रान्सवाल युद्ध', 'आंग्ल-बोअर युद्ध', और 'दक्षिण-अफ्रीकी युद्ध' भी कहते हैं।

द्वितीय बोअर युद्ध
बोअर युद्ध का भाग
Second_Boer_War_Collage.png
Clockwise from top left:
तिथि 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902 (2 years, 7 months, 20 days)
स्थान Southern Africa (present-day South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini)[1]
परिणाम British victory
क्षेत्रीय
बदलाव
The Boer republics are absorbed into the British Empire in accordance with the Treaty of Vereeniging.
योद्धा
साँचा:Country data South African Republic
साँचा:Country data Orange Free State
सेनानायक
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
Joseph Chamberlain
Alfred Milner
Frederick Roberts
William Robertson
Paul Methuen
Redvers Buller
Herbert Kitchener
Rudolph Lambart
Robert Baden-Powell
Herbert Plumer
François-Louis Lessard
Walter Tunbridge
साँचा:Country data South African Republic Paul Kruger
साँचा:Country data South African Republic Koos de la Rey
साँचा:Country data South African Republic Louis Botha
साँचा:Country data South African Republic Schalk W. Burger
साँचा:Country data South African Republic Piet Cronjé (युद्ध-बन्दी)
साँचा:Country data South African Republic Piet Joubert
साँचा:Country data South African Republic Jan Smuts
साँचा:Country data Orange Free State Martinus Steyn
साँचा:Country data Orange Free State Christiaan de Wet
शक्ति/क्षमता
British:
347,000
Colonial:
103,000–153,000
African auxiliaries:
100,000[4]
Boer Commandos:
25,000 Transvaal Boers
15,000 Free State Boers
6,000–7,000 Cape Boers[5]
African auxiliaries:
10,000[4]
Foreign volunteers:
5,400+[उद्धरण चाहिए]
मृत्यु एवं हानि
22,092 dead[c]
75,430 returned home sick or wounded[7]
934 missing
Total: ~99,284
6,189 dead[d]
24,000 captured (sent overseas)[उद्धरण चाहिए]
21,256 bitter-enders surrendered (at the end of the war)[7]
Total: ~51,445
Civilian casualties:
46,370 fatalities
26,370 Boer women and children died in concentration camps
20,000+ Africans of the 115,000 interned in separate concentration camps.[उद्धरण चाहिए]
  1. Before Federation in 1901, Australian involvement in the war consisted of forces from the following separate colonies:
  2. Larger numbers of volunteers came from the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden-Norway. Smaller forces came from Ireland, Italy, Congress Poland, France, Australia, Belgium, Russia, the United States, Denmark and Austria-Hungary.
  3. 5,774 killed in battle; 2,108 died of wounds; 14,210 died of disease[6]
  4. 3,990 killed in battle; 157 died in accidents; 924 of wounds and disease; 1,118 while prisoners of war.[7]
  1. Jones, Huw M. (October 1999). "Neutrality compromised: Swaziland and the Anglo–Boer War, 1899–1902". Military History Journal. 11 (3/4). मूल से 22 December 2015 को पुरालेखित. अभिगमन तिथि 19 August 2010.
  2. Grattan, Robert (2009). "The Entente in World War I: a case study in strategy formulation in an alliance". Journal of Management History. 15 (2): 147–158. डीओआइ:10.1108/17511340910943796.
  3. Haydon, A.P. (1964). "South Australia's first war". Australian Historical Studies. 11 (42).
  4. sahoboss (31 March 2011). "Role of Black people in the South African War".
  5. Scholtz, Leopold (2005). Why the Boers Lost the War. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan. पपृ॰ 2–5, 119. आई॰ऍस॰बी॰ऍन॰ 978-1-4039-4880-9.
  6. Eveleigh Nash 1914, पृ॰ 309.
  7. Wessels 2011, पृ॰ 79.

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