“[In the late 1880s] the Brits are going… ‘Okay, we need to make the next leap forward’…” Watch the full video on Youtube 👉 https://youtu.be/AROtYwUpVfk Luke and Louee meet up with Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, to learn about a weapon that was made famous by the Boer and Zulu Wars: the Martini-Henry rifle. | History Hit

275K views · 2.7K reactions | Learn more about the weapons of The South African War (formerly known as the Second Anglo-Boer War). In this gripping episode of the YouTube series we uncover the astonishing story of 14-year-old John Francis Dunn, a courageous army bugler whose impulsive actions threw chaos into a pivotal battlefield. Watch the series now on YouTube! https://youtu.be/0dDDS-vD0IY | HISTORY | Facebook

Short film "Commando" made by Stephen de Villiers in 2013 as a student project. Thanks Stephen for making available this video to be posted here and congratulations on a great production. Stephen nowadays has a film company in Australia. Here his company web site: https://beyondcontent.com.au/ | Boer War Colourised Photographs