Britain only had a small, though well-trained regular army. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war ...

We don’t have the people or the kit to do so. We need to remind ourselves that at the very end of the Cold War, in 1990, the British Army managed – just – to deploy a two-armoured brigade ...

As far back as the Second Boer War of 1899-1902 ... a dozen companies were commissioned to produce watches for the British military. These companies included Jaeger-LeCoultre, Longines and ...

Vladimir Putin knows he would be “overwhelmed” and lose a World War, the head of the British military has declared. Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the Chief of the Defence Staff, claimed there is ...

Britain waged war against Dutch settlers in South Africa ... volunteers overseas but the volunteers would be paid by the British army and be under British control. In the early 1900s, prominent ...

An oversized numeral makes this important coin one of the rarest in South African history. Read the story of its $2 million ...

The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war, the British army experienced great difficulty in finding fit ...