Edward William Boers information

Edward William Boers (March 10, 1884 – April 2, 1929) was a seaman serving in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor for bravery. Boers...

legitimate way of depriving the Boer guerrillas of supplies and safe havens. The Boers saw them as a British attempt to coerce the Boers into surrender, with the...

for Black representation in the U.S. military during segregation Edward William Boers – Navy Medal of Honor recipient Henry Francis Bryan – United States...

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January...

you will be shot.' He then asked as to the plans of the Boers. Visser replied that the Boers did not intend to stay around there (Little Letaba) but were...

Boer foreign volunteers were participants who volunteered their military services to the Boers in the Second Boer War. Although there was much international...

Major League Baseball player Edward William Boers, Medal of Honor recipient Phelps "Catfish" Collins, guitarist William Edward Voll (1893-1982), Pitcher...

force of Boers at close range to prevent two 12-pound field guns from being captured. During the action, Holland helped to hold back the Boers using a...

were wounded in the charge. The surviving Boers retreated down the hill to their camp waking up their fellow Boers by screaming "Die Engelse is op die kop...

nearby siege of Kimberley, the Boers decided that the town was too heavily defended to take. On 19 November 1899, 4,000 Boers were redeployed elsewhere, although...

optimistic, but Kitchener estimated there were about 5,000 Boers left in the field. Edward was the only son never to see his father at the death, he had...

terrific rainstorm broke, and the Boers withdrew under cover of it. The British suffered 175 killed and 249 wounded. 52 dead Boers were left in the British positions...

a camp of about 4,000 disaffected Boers near Pretoria. Though conditions were grim, Frere managed to win the Boers' respect by promising to present their...

London: Longmans, Green and Co., p. 42 Fisher, William Edward Garrett (1900), The Transvaal and the Boers, London: Chapman & Hall, p. 242 Mekeel, ed. (27...

militia, fought alongside the Boers against the British forces during the Second Boer War (1899–1902). Irish support for the Boers can be traced back to 1877...

William Edward Heaton VC (2 January 1875 – 5 June 1941) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry...

carrying out reconnaissance patrols and pursuing Boer commandos. As part of the effort to deprive the Boers of resources, they also helped to destroy crops...

Ernest William Turner, VC, KCB, KCMG, DSO, CD (25 July 1871 – 19 June 1961) was a senior Canadian Army officer who served during the Second Boer War and...

during the First Boer War. Gladstone, the incoming Liberal Prime Minister was convinced that Beaconfieldism had alienated the Boers. To soften the blow...