The German-armed Boer Republicans score some initial…
1899 CE
The German-armed Boer Republicans score some initial victories, besieging the cities of Mafeking, Kimberley and Ladysmith, in what the Afrikaners call the Second War of Freedom.
Robert Baden-Powell holds Mafeking against the Boers for two hundred and seventeen days until British troops under Lords Roberts and Kitchener, his chief of staff, relieve the besieged cities.