1. Complete your quiz
Essay review – highlight where your group has put in analysis (focusing on the question) and knowledge. The more highlighted the better!

2. The Second Boer War C aim – to explain what happened B aim – to explain what happened and why this was
What do you think is happening here?
What does it suggest about the British army and the Second Boer War?

3. Label your map with each event
There were 3 main phases to the war
Phase 1 Oct 1899-Jan 1900 – The Boers invaded the Cape Colony and Natal and beseiged Ladysmith, Kimberely and Mafeking. The British tried to relive these sieges and failed.
Phase 2 Jan-Sept1900 – The British got reinforcements and relived the sieges and fought the main Boer army. After a mixture of defeats and triumphs the Boers realised that the British were superior and retreated. The defeat of the siege of Mafeking met great celebration in Britain as it seemed that the British had won.
Phase 3 – Sep 1900-May 1902 – The Boers retreated to their local areas and formed guerrilla groups with the sole instructions of to attack the British to cause great harm and quickly so they couldn’t get reinforcements quickly enough. A guerrilla war began where the Boers virtually took control whenever the main British army left. The Boers attacked railways and other supply routes. Britain eventually stopped the guerrilla groups and won.
Label your map with each event

4. Label your map with each event

5. Phase Three Scorched Earth Policy – What was it?
Why did it happen? What happened to the Boers and Africans who lived there?

6. Phase Three Concentration camps Why were they established?
What were they like?
What did people think of them?

7. Homework – due Tuesday 2nd December
Write a newspaper article or report on the Second Boer War. Make sure you include...
Its causes
Key figures
The events
The consequences