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| | South Africa: history to 1902 - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about South Africa: history to 1902 |
 | | When later defeated in the field they resorted to commando or guerrilla tactics which prolonged the war for three years. | | | The British, in retaliation, introduced a scorched-earth policy, so that when the war ended in the Peace of Vereeniging in May 1902 most Boer homesteads and farms had been destroyed. | | | As a means of denying support to the Boer commandos the British rounded up Boer women and children and ‘concentrated’ them in camps (hence ‘concentration camps’), where 26,000 died from disease. |
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