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==Records==
[[findmypast]] introduced, in March 2017, the database "Anglo-Boer War Records 1899-1902"<ref>[http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/anglo-boer-war-records-1899-1902 Anglo-Boer War Records 1899-1902] findmypast</ref>, compiled from multiple sourceslocated in Military, Armed Forces & Conflict/Boer Wars. Elsewhere, this is was stated to be based on include a register compiled by military researcher Meurig Jones over a period of 25 years. All the records appear to be transcripts, without images, from a variety of sources, including medal rolls from The National Archives, Kew in the series W0 100. Also see [[Medal Rolls]]. Medal Rolls are also available as free downloads from TNA , and from the pay website Ancestry.
==External links==
===Historical books online===
*[http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/16091 ''Martial law in the Cape Colony, during 1901''] by Frederic MacKarness 1902. Link to a pdf download Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
*''History of the War in South Africa, 1899-1902''. Compiled by direction of His Majesty's Government. Volumes 1 and 2 by Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice. [https://archive.org/details/historyofwarinso01mauruoft/page/ii/mode/2up Volume 1] 1906, [https://archive.org/details/historyofwarinso02mauruoft/page/n5/mode/2up Volume 2] 1907, [https://archive.org/details/historyofwarinso03mauruoft/page/n7/mode/2up Volume 3] 1908, [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.3206/page/n5/mode/2up Volume 4] by Captain Maurice Harold Grant 1910. Archive.org
:Maps to accompany each of the above volumes. [https://archive.org/details/historyofwarinso01grea/page/n9/mode/2up Volume 1],[https://archive.org/details/historyofwarinso02grea/page/n9/mode/2up Volume 2], [https://archive.org/details/historyofwarinso03grea/page/n9/mode/2up Volume 3], [https://archive.org/details/historyofwarinso04grea/page/n9/mode/2up Volume 4] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/search?query=%22The+Times+history+of+the+war+in+South+Africa%22&sort=date ''The Times History of the War in South Africa'' (seven volumes)] edited by L S Amery published 1900-1909 Archive.org. ''Volume 7'' consists of Appendices and an Index.
*[https://archive.org/details/defenceofduffers0000swin_r2s8/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Defence of Duffer's Drift''] by Major-General Sir Ernest Swinton with a foreword by Field Marshal Earl Wavell 1949 reprint, first published 1904. [https://archive.org/details/defenceofduffers0000swin/mode/2up 1986 edition] Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24842 Gutenberg.org 1905 USA edition] A book on small unit tactics. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defence_of_Duffer%27s_Drift Wikipedia article].
