What Was Life Like for Women and Children in the Boer War?

The boers were mobile, they were skilled. They had these very effective guns and which in many ways out performed the leam etfords and lee enfields that the british had. Women and children suffered enormously. In the guerilla phase of the war, women, boor women and children, and also blacks who were servants and allies of the boors, were moved into concentration camps. Of course, they were not intentionally killed. So although they were not directly caught up in the cross fire, they suffered because they saw their farms, their homesteads, burnt to the ground. Thousands of thousands died. And as many as 30 thousand boorWomen and