south africa is kinda saddening, im south afircan..a boer also..british wanted to bithc about concetration camps in ww2, they did worse in both boer wars
i think u narrow minded, european history dont concern me at all, im afrikaans, im a boer, waht u call it, kitchet dutch aka, kombuis dutch.. and yeha my great great grand mother was in one of these hell holes. appiusforum.net/hellkamp.html boers.co.za/concentration-camps/ www.natal-tourism.co.za/battlefields/battlefields_pow_jacobs.php tracyloveshistory.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/suffer-the-little-children-british-concentration-camps-during-the-2nd-anglo-boer-war/ boers.co.za/concentration-camps/
A big round of applause. This is the first video I've seen on TH-cam where the narrator actually got the Afrikaans accent right. Well done sir. As an Afrikaner I thank and salute you.
@Bruno56 if you really believe this blatant untrues, brought to you by jingoistic media since the early 1800's, sir, you are mercifully free from the ravages of intelligence, brave keyboard warrior from abroad.
@@mattsmith1518 Hell nah! bbq is that crappy foldy flying saucer thing americans make meat pattys on.. A braai is using real wood, a roster and Freshly slaughtered Gemsbok with jimmys sauce. Same same but different!
There was a veteran of the 2nd Boer War who went on to serve as a senior officer in the 1st World War who wrote in 1921 that if the British had not fought the Boers in South Africa in 1899 - 1902 and had entered the 1st World War without learning all the lessons they had had to learn in South Africa , which entailed almost completely overhauling the way the Army was trained and run , then the 1st World War would truly have been all over by Xmas 1914 and the British would have lost it. He wrote in his memoirs saying that 'Paul Kruger was the best friend the British Army ever had'. For the implications of losing the 1st World War would have been infinitely more catastrophic than losing a war in South Africa. Interesting.It was a kick up the arse needed just at the right time. Also recall listening to a veteran of that war being interviewed sometime in the 1950s i think it was on the radio i recall him saying '' oh lord, those buggers ( Boers) could shoot..lol
im dutch and i have never heard of the boers or anything to do with them before i found your channel. I really love these vids you make about them. Keep up the good work and im looking forward to more!
Pieter den Boer Yup the Dutch wouldnt have any Afrikaaner return and didn't recognise them as citizens. Disgusting to turn your back on your own people.
vuurvlieg123 There are more then 4.5 million white people in South Africa of whom majority are Boers, no other colonial nation managed to leave a legacy like that, despite having colonies far longer then Netherlands.
Could you please make a video about the 1914 Boer Rebellion? (Also known as the Maritz Rebellion.). I think it's such an interesting chapter of Afrikaner history, and it links up very well with your Boer War videos. Two of my ancestors fought in the Second Boer War, and one was captured and held prisoner during the 1914 Rebellion. Thank you for making such insightful videos. Keep up the good work. Groete uit Suid-Afrika!
Sheugnet Jones tweede vryheidsoorlog. 2nd freedom war from the boer perspective. 1899-1902. Their success in the first war might have made them a bit too cocky when the second time came around. They should have let the brits drown in gold while they maintained everything else. Avoid total war
agreed, more Afrikaans history is very much apreciated. I love all your videos man. I have always been a sucker for history and Dutch-related history especially. Far too little is taught in school even when you chose history as a major in Gymnasium.
I reckon the Boers and the the rural (Southern) Americans are somewhat the same. They're armed, know how to shoot and ride horse. Living in either texas, queensland or South Africa in those days would have been hard, probably still is (as a farmer anyway).
Black Templar I'm getting sick and tired of being called Dutch, a third of our ancestry is Dutch and a third German. Why don't you call us Germans? Although they are weak and spineless Europeans like the Dutch, they are at least marginally better.
Callie call me boer , proud to be a boer. The boers invented guarilla warfare , before us everybody fought with brightly coloured clothes. The rest off the world followed us on how to fight under camouflage
Great video, from a Boer's perspective! The modern Afrikaner still fish and hunts whenever the opportunity arise, we are proud Protestants! I love ALL history!
You say early in the video that the British "should really have learned lessons from the American Revolution." The British in fact had learned the value of riflemen and sharpshooters from the Americans and used units such as the 60th Rifles and 95th Rifles to great effect throughout the Napoleonic Wars. The trouble was while during the Napoleonic Wars most troops were still armed with short range smooth-bore muskets deployed in lines and columns, rifles had a great advantage in range and accuracy at this time and trained soldiers could pick off officers almost at will. By the Crimean War and later still the First Boer War, rifles were readily available to all soldiers but the tactics for using them hadn't advanced much. Consequently lines and columns of troops all armed with accurate, long range and quick firing rifles were having at each other on European battlefields and in the American Civil War too causing enormous casualties. The Red Cross was set up to help deal with the huge amount of wounded soldiers around this time. The Boers themselves as you say were expert marksmen, they had to be, and the ponderous formations of British troops made for excellent targets. In the second Boer War at the battle of Spien Kop the Cheshire Regiment was almost annihilated by the Boers, the vast majority shot through the head.
Thanks for an excellent summary of that part of the South African history. The "Boers", however, were not only Dutch descendants. Some French (the Huguenots) and Germans (and few other Europeans), immigrated to South Africa after the Cape Colony was established and then formed the "Boer" population who started the Groot Trek. Dutch was initially the "mother's milk" who fed Afrikaans, but other languages also influenced the forming of Afrikaans as an independent language.
True! I'm Afrikaans ; and I was surprised to find in my family records that the vast majority of my ancestors were German; some French and actually very little Dutch. That and of course a few Indians, Guineans and Malays.
Man, I really enjoyed this. Jou Afrikaans is glad nie sleg nie. You are quite good at the phonetics. I'm new here, so I don't know if you've said it before, but do you have Dutch ancestry or are you just crazy about linguistics? You really entertained me with your accurate accent.
Wilco Boshoff Thank you very much! I'm glad my Afrikaans wasn't too bad, although I figure my Dutch accent is pretty strong haha 😂 My parents are Dutch so I was raised bilingual with that language and English :)
TY for posting this. As I live in the US theres alot of history that they dont teach us & though some college classes mention the 2nd Boer War as the immediate precurser to WW1 they only refer to it as the Boer War & no mention is made that another war in the exact same area took place a decade earlier. Speaking of history NOT taught in the US , could you do a video on the Spanish Civil War ? or perhaps 1 on the role Franco's Spain played in WW2 as that is just NEVER discussed. TY again & keep up the good work
Its not an American battle at all but there was at least one movie about 1930s England when an objectionable Prime Minister brought on the Germans that he heard of a barbaric prison camp which was the prototype for Hitler's execution and extermination facilities. An ambassador kindly reminded him of a UK tactic during the 1900 to 1903 war which was along those lines.
Excellent. My grandfather came to South Africa and fought the Boers in the 2nd Boer War. Thats why I write this sitting in Cape Town. Most enjoyable. Thanks.
A bit of background history info here that few people know: The Boer War started when the English tried to hang 3 Boers accused of theft in my hometown of Potchefstroom. The ropes snapped 3 times and then the British decided to shoot them and so the rebellion started. To this day there is a monument/laager just outside Potchefstroom. And it was also a gentleman's conflict where they took a break in the middle of the day from fighting, had coffee and tea together and resumed fighting after.
History With Hilbert It would be fun to hear you trying to do a video in Afrikaans (though, as an Afrikaans L1 speaker myself, I would have to say it'd be cringe-worthy as all hell as well). If you like, you can contact me and I'll help you with pronunciation. I also have access to a few history books on the Second Anglo-Boer War (written by South African historians)
The rebellion of 1914 is one of the most important and most underrated parts of the Afrikaner history. That actually defined to a large extent the future of the Afrikaner in South Africa and the situation they are currently in. This explains why South west Africa (now Namibia) was part of South Africa for a long time. This explains how and why the political system in South Africa came to resemble the British one. This part of our history is not taught in schools, most school who still teach Afrikaner history focuses on the Groot Trek etc. If you are interested, read "rebelspoor" by l.j. Bothma. A video by Hilbert would be great!! (Maybe after the 2nd boer war video :P)
@@hanoitripper1809 Boers captured him, if you have read Boer war books you will find it there. In addition Brit soldiers hung around Boer farm houses for the good food the likes of which they had never had. You will also find that (photos) Brit prisoners of the Kommandos joining in the looting of mail for Brit soldiers mail and parcels from wrecked trains.
@@davethorstry6700 that’s interesting, do you have any links for Boer books or authors? I’ve read some books but mostly from the British side of the events
Plenty of good reliable and accurate information on the history of the various republic’s in Southern Africa available in various institutions . Must admit I enjoyed the video
This is a fair assessment. Just to add a little: it is said that once on the mountain general Colly believed their position to be very secure and he wrote a letter to his wife saying "We can stay here forever". Which is somewhat prophetic as a number of them are buried there.
Just a fun fact, I have never heard it referred to specifically as the Boer war in South Africa, in English it always the Anglo-Boer wars, or rarely the freedom wars, and in Afrikaans it is the Vryheidsoorloë or Anglo-Boereoorloë.
Phrenomythic Yes! I'm a coloured South African so literally have British Dutch Indonesian Indian Irish blood and so much more! South Africa has such an interesting history and it's awesome to learn about. Indonesia would be an awesome video
I enjoyed your Dutch! I now live in Australia from South Africa, and no one here can speak with a guttural "g", low in the throat. Even my english speaking South African friends could not reach that "Germanic-"G", as you did. Very good my man. One day the Boere will rule the world....I always say.
Volkslied van Transvaal: Kent gij dat volk vol heldenmoed En toch zo lang geknecht? Het heeft geofferd goed en bloed Voor vrijheid en voor recht Komt burgers! Laat de vlaggen wapp'ren Ons lijden is voorbij Roemt in de zege onzer dapp'ren Dat vrije volk zijn wij!
I speak Afrikaans a bit, I learned it mostly from a friend in Pretoria. It's a very easy language to pick up, and if you know some Dutch you can pick it up very fast. If you're ever interested in language learning and/or language exchange resources, I can hook you up. Jou kanaal is baie awesome.
This relates to what i have been told. My first name (Colin) comes from my mother's second name (Colley), which came from her maternal grandmother's surname. who happened to be General Sir Colley,'s sister. From what I've heard, they mourned his death, but supported the Boer cause.
love anything about this period my grandad was a nsw mounted in the period 1900 -1902 wounded twice and survived,never knew him sadly his medals are at the museum Victoria barracks, I have duplicate, he died in 1930 his serial number was 99 .my dad never spoke about him?
"You don't object to our help do you?" "It all depends on what you damned English want for it, afterwards" The lines that led me to my first introduction to the boer war.
Did the success of the Boers' tactics in these wars cause the Germans to conclude that the only way to defeat insurgencies was extreme brutality, reinforcing the "Bandit fighting" doctrine that was so infamously used on the Eastern Front in both world wars?
Hilbert YOU ARE FUNNIER THAN YOU KNOW!! Yet in all what a wonderful way to remember history. Bet those in your audience that found history hard to remember wish they had you around to teach them. Thanks again for a very inventive presentation. Q: 1 thing I am confused on, though. What were Highlanders doing all the way down in Africa!! Were they sent for by the British as reinforcements? Please explain.
If you do want to do the videos in Afrikaans, I can help! I can help with any translation and pronunciation stuff if you need. Also, will you ever do a video on the wars between the Bantu peoples? I think it would be a very interesting topic And great video btw, I'm enjoying your stuff on South Africa.
Please say yes to this man. Your pronunciation was better than DiCaprio in Blood Diamond, but could use a little help from time to time. I smiled a bit when you said Transvaal. Maybe Vaughn you can translate for subtitles? I know it is not the same, but it would help him a bit I dunno.
Thanks for watching :) I was thinking about looking at some of the Britons of England and what happened to them during and after the Anglo-Saxon Invasion.
Why not state that Majuba was the greatest defeat of the British empire's history as the boers did not even lose one person that day and the british lost hundreds!
"Why die when you can braai?" Fantastic. Also, lil editing mishap around 09:00 when you can hear both a stutter, a key press and the retake. But otherwise very informative video. Well done.
History With Hilbert No worries. Also I didn't see the very end bit because I tabbed away, but saw it now. I can't believe you don't speak Afrikaans. Your pronounciation is honestly excellent. Especially as bad Afrikaans pronounciation is excruciating to listen to. Do you mind me asking where you're from or how you came to know how to speak bits of it?
nice video.. makes me think of the books of Herman Charles Bosman, he writes about a leopard in one of his stories, I think in the collection Mafeking Road & Other Stories, anyway the leopard is causing consternation in the district, everyone is trying to kill the leopard as the creature is killing cattle. Anyway the protagonist claims that the amount of shooting going on reminds him of the first Boer war and the amount of running away reminds him of the second Boer war. wonderful short stories, I would recommend them. Another fantastic book about the second Boer war is Denys Reitz's memoir "On Commando", one of the best books I have ever read about a personal account in a war.
I grew up under apartheid schooling and with all the propaganda, there strangely was not much focus on either Boer Wars. In non-white schooling that’s is. The history focused heavy on the persecuting of the boers by the English (minus the whole abolishment of slavery off course) but stopped short of the Boer Wars. The absolute dominance and tactical superiority of the Boers up until Colenso, you think would have been worth mentioning. Great video, thank you. Can I suggest the Anglo Boer War podcast by a guy called Des Latham. It is on the Second War, but truly excellent
Hey Hilbert, how about you make another dutch colonial history (Caribbean, Suriname and Indonesia), and of course a story about dutch golden age and VOC . Greetings from Indonesia
1.5 speed makes it brutal
Then put auto-generated English subtitles on xD
I hope the sequel is coming soon
south africa is kinda saddening, im south afircan..a boer also..british wanted to bithc about concetration camps in ww2, they did worse in both boer wars
whats taht lol never happened
i think u narrow minded, european history dont concern me at all, im afrikaans, im a boer, waht u call it, kitchet dutch aka, kombuis dutch..
and yeha my great great grand mother was in one of these hell holes.
appiusforum.net/hellkamp.html
boers.co.za/concentration-camps/
www.natal-tourism.co.za/battlefields/battlefields_pow_jacobs.php
tracyloveshistory.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/suffer-the-little-children-british-concentration-camps-during-the-2nd-anglo-boer-war/
boers.co.za/concentration-camps/
I am a Boer and I speak Afrikaans. I really appreciate you including Afrikaans sentences in your videos. Keep up the good work!
Oh, I don't care, uhhhh whatever 😒
@@cebosityata8457 Voetsek
@@cebosityata8457 ok Victorianist.
You are Afrikaner? I started to learn Afrikaans a couple of days ago, could you help me, asselblief
@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 baje goed
A big round of applause. This is the first video I've seen on TH-cam where the narrator actually got the Afrikaans accent right. Well done sir. As an Afrikaner I thank and salute you.
Billy Kruger He’s dutch so it’s not that impressive.
Nie rerig nie maar dit vorder
@Bruno56 Why in the deuce did you think this was a good context for this kind of comment? Time and a place, man.
@Bruno56 if you really believe this blatant untrues, brought to you by jingoistic media since the early 1800's, sir, you are mercifully free from the ravages of intelligence, brave keyboard warrior from abroad.
It's Afrikaans with a Dutch accent.
"Why die when you can braai?" - quote of the day!
@@mattsmith1518 Hell nah! bbq is that crappy foldy flying saucer thing americans make meat pattys on.. A braai is using real wood, a roster and Freshly slaughtered Gemsbok with jimmys sauce. Same same but different!
@@ramvander88 jimmys sauce is really nice
@George As long as the meat is medium rare!
There was a veteran of the 2nd Boer War who went on to serve as a senior officer in the 1st World War who wrote in 1921 that if the British had not fought the Boers in South Africa in 1899 - 1902 and had entered the 1st World War without learning all the lessons they had had to learn in South Africa , which entailed almost completely overhauling the way the Army was trained and run , then the 1st World War would truly have been all over by Xmas 1914 and the British would have lost it.
He wrote in his memoirs saying that 'Paul Kruger was the best friend the British Army ever had'. For the implications of losing the 1st World War would have been infinitely more catastrophic than losing a war in South Africa. Interesting.It was a kick up the arse needed just at the right time.
Also recall listening to a veteran of that war being interviewed sometime in the 1950s i think it was on the radio i recall him saying '' oh lord, those buggers ( Boers) could shoot..lol
Lol
im dutch and i have never heard of the boers or anything to do with them before i found your channel. I really love these vids you make about them. Keep up the good work and im looking forward to more!
Glad I could introduce you to some South African history :)
Thank you - and welcome!
It's really sad that so many Dutch people don't know about your own history and people that were forgotten in Africa.
Kosta M. We never even got it thought in school. It kind of was like we had colonies in south africa and we didnt talk about it besides that.
Pieter den Boer Yup the Dutch wouldnt have any Afrikaaner return and didn't recognise them as citizens. Disgusting to turn your back on your own people.
vuurvlieg123 There are more then 4.5 million white people in South Africa of whom majority are Boers, no other colonial nation managed to leave a legacy like that, despite having colonies far longer then Netherlands.
Could you please make a video about the 1914 Boer Rebellion? (Also known as the Maritz Rebellion.). I think it's such an interesting chapter of Afrikaner history, and it links up very well with your Boer War videos.
Two of my ancestors fought in the Second Boer War, and one was captured and held prisoner during the 1914 Rebellion.
Thank you for making such insightful videos. Keep up the good work.
Groete uit Suid-Afrika!
You're just getting better with every single video! Quite impressive!
Phrenomythic Cheers man, really appreciate it!
so...you're saying the entire war happened for piets sake?
That's one way of seeing it :)
No the british put our children an women in consetraition camps
Alexander, nee Man! Dit was die TWEEDE Anglo-Boere-oorlog.
Alexander Smit is die eerste boer oorlog
Sheugnet Jones tweede vryheidsoorlog. 2nd freedom war from the boer perspective. 1899-1902. Their success in the first war might have made them a bit too cocky when the second time came around. They should have let the brits drown in gold while they maintained everything else. Avoid total war
Thanks for pronouncing everything properly, you don't know how much it hurts when people say it wrong.
Excellent video. Please do more Afrikaans history
Thanks man! I've got a few more coming :)
agreed, more Afrikaans history is very much apreciated. I love all your videos man. I have always been a sucker for history and Dutch-related history especially. Far too little is taught in school even when you chose history as a major in Gymnasium.
Xhosa history
the first boer war
Dutch settlers becomming sniper
before it was cool😎😎
Fire and movement was the historical innovation. A sniper is a marksman but not all marksmen are snipers.
what about Confederate soldiers in American Civil War?
I reckon the Boers and the the rural (Southern) Americans are somewhat the same. They're armed, know how to shoot and ride horse. Living in either texas, queensland or South Africa in those days would have been hard, probably still is (as a farmer anyway).
Black Templar
I'm getting sick and tired of being called Dutch, a third of our ancestry is Dutch and a third German. Why don't you call us Germans? Although they are weak and spineless Europeans like the Dutch, they are at least marginally better.
Callie call me boer , proud to be a boer. The boers invented guarilla warfare , before us everybody fought with brightly coloured clothes. The rest off the world followed us on how to fight under camouflage
Great video, from a Boer's perspective! The modern Afrikaner still fish and hunts whenever the opportunity arise, we are proud Protestants! I love ALL history!
You say early in the video that the British "should really have learned lessons from the American Revolution." The British in fact had learned the value of riflemen and sharpshooters from the Americans and used units such as the 60th Rifles and 95th Rifles to great effect throughout the Napoleonic Wars. The trouble was while during the Napoleonic Wars most troops were still armed with short range smooth-bore muskets deployed in lines and columns, rifles had a great advantage in range and accuracy at this time and trained soldiers could pick off officers almost at will. By the Crimean War and later still the First Boer War, rifles were readily available to all soldiers but the tactics for using them hadn't advanced much. Consequently lines and columns of troops all armed with accurate, long range and quick firing rifles were having at each other on European battlefields and in the American Civil War too causing enormous casualties. The Red Cross was set up to help deal with the huge amount of wounded soldiers around this time.
The Boers themselves as you say were expert marksmen, they had to be, and the ponderous formations of British troops made for excellent targets. In the second Boer War at the battle of Spien Kop the Cheshire Regiment was almost annihilated by the Boers, the vast majority shot through the head.
Thanks for an excellent summary of that part of the South African history. The "Boers", however, were not only Dutch descendants. Some French (the Huguenots) and Germans (and few other Europeans), immigrated to South Africa after the Cape Colony was established and then formed the "Boer" population who started the Groot Trek. Dutch was initially the "mother's milk" who fed Afrikaans, but other languages also influenced the forming of Afrikaans as an independent language.
True! I'm Afrikaans ; and I was surprised to find in my family records that the vast majority of my ancestors were German; some French and actually very little Dutch. That and of course a few Indians, Guineans and Malays.
Man, I really enjoyed this. Jou Afrikaans is glad nie sleg nie.
You are quite good at the phonetics. I'm new here, so I don't know if you've said it before, but do you have Dutch ancestry or are you just crazy about linguistics? You really entertained me with your accurate accent.
Wilco Boshoff Thank you very much! I'm glad my Afrikaans wasn't too bad, although I figure my Dutch accent is pretty strong haha 😂 My parents are Dutch so I was raised bilingual with that language and English :)
Hilbert, Dutch or Frisian? :) For the non-dutchies, Hilbert is a typical Frisian name.
Wilco Boshoff joune ook nie😂
Bie oons is jao jao geliek an nee
Engelsman hieso. Jou ma se poes. Dis al my afrikaans. Dankie
keep up the good work Hilbert
Cheers man!
TY for posting this. As I live in the US theres alot of history that they dont teach us & though some college classes mention the 2nd Boer War as the immediate precurser to WW1 they only refer to it as the Boer War & no mention is made that another war in the exact same area took place a decade earlier. Speaking of history NOT taught in the US , could you do a video on the Spanish Civil War ? or perhaps 1 on the role Franco's Spain played in WW2 as that is just NEVER discussed. TY again & keep up the good work
Its not an American battle at all but there was at least one movie about 1930s England when an objectionable Prime Minister brought on the Germans that he heard of a barbaric prison camp which was the prototype for Hitler's execution and extermination facilities. An ambassador kindly reminded him of a UK tactic during the 1900 to 1903 war which was along those lines.
all boer wars are taught at westpoint U.S
Really appreciate you getting the pronunciation right. Great video.
Thank you for all these Afrikaans history videos, there's not enough on youtube :)
Great video, you covered it in just the right depth
Great to hear, thanks!
Thank you for your accurate prenounciations of our moedertaal (mother tongue).It did not go unnoticed☝️.
Great video. I am slowly and gradually learning more about this great and heroic people, the Boers. Thank you for this video.
The Boere were probably the best fighting men ever.
They were intelligent in war fighting also
I think the Spartans, Mongols, Vikings and Romans would disagree.
Once again a fantastic video. Really loving them. These videos really give you an idea why South Africa is such a diverse country today.
These videos just keep getting better. Loving the channel!
Ga zo door!
Hi History With Hilbert. This was excellent! Please don't stop making these informative videos.
Doing a paper on the 1st Boer War and this really helped me out. Thank you.
Excellent. My grandfather came to South Africa and fought the Boers in the 2nd Boer War. Thats why I write this sitting in Cape Town. Most enjoyable. Thanks.
You'll get yours.
A bit of background history info here that few people know: The Boer War started when the English tried to hang 3 Boers accused of theft in my hometown of Potchefstroom. The ropes snapped 3 times and then the British decided to shoot them and so the rebellion started. To this day there is a monument/laager just outside Potchefstroom. And it was also a gentleman's conflict where they took a break in the middle of the day from fighting, had coffee and tea together and resumed fighting after.
Excellent. But the second Boer war was definitely not a gentleman war...
Even during a battle the Brits have to have their tea
Goeie dag sal jy my whatsapp ? 071 753 7683 Sal graag bietjei wil gesel en meer hoor van die storie.
10/10 editing at 08:48 xD
Are you a South African?
Jon Stark no you
Jon Stark No he's Dutch/Frisian, but born and raised in England. Explains the accent and language hybrid.
History With Hilbert
It would be fun to hear you trying to do a video in Afrikaans (though, as an Afrikaans L1 speaker myself, I would have to say it'd be cringe-worthy as all hell as well).
If you like, you can contact me and I'll help you with pronunciation. I also have access to a few history books on the Second Anglo-Boer War (written by South African historians)
still awewome though
Haha jou Afrikaans is goed my ou maatjie! Baie goeie video hoor! Een van die beter opsommings van gebeure!
Hy is van Nederland so dit maak sin
The best description of the boer war✅
The Boer is never happier than when in the velt, either farming or fighting.
More Boer history. I have visited SA (ZA) six times and lived there a while. I have great respect for the Afrikaaners and their struggle. 👍🏻❤️
The rebellion of 1914 is one of the most important and most underrated parts of the Afrikaner history. That actually defined to a large extent the future of the Afrikaner in South Africa and the situation they are currently in. This explains why South west Africa (now Namibia) was part of South Africa for a long time. This explains how and why the political system in South Africa came to resemble the British one.
This part of our history is not taught in schools, most school who still teach Afrikaner history focuses on the Groot Trek etc. If you are interested, read "rebelspoor" by l.j. Bothma.
A video by Hilbert would be great!! (Maybe after the 2nd boer war video :P)
Ive also read that the Boers treated the British prisoners and wounded well after the battle.
A clever tactic to catch and release so that they might think twice when being asked to fight the Boers again.
@@nice1256 They captured one soldier three times in one day! Because he was treated well, had a good braai and was released
@@davethorstry6700 who
@@hanoitripper1809 Boers captured him, if you have read Boer war books you will find it there. In addition Brit soldiers hung around Boer farm houses for the good food the likes of which they had never had. You will also find that (photos) Brit prisoners of the Kommandos joining in the looting of mail for Brit soldiers mail and parcels from wrecked trains.
@@davethorstry6700 that’s interesting, do you have any links for Boer books or authors? I’ve read some books but mostly from the British side of the events
The fact that the british empire got humiliated by a bunch of children with guns is funny.
Plenty of good reliable and accurate information on the history of the various republic’s in Southern Africa available in various institutions . Must admit I enjoyed the video
Great video, it's refreshing to hear someone who can actually pronounce Boer correctly.
This is a fair assessment. Just to add a little: it is said that once on the mountain general Colly believed their position to be very secure and he wrote a letter to his wife saying "We can stay here forever". Which is somewhat prophetic as a number of them are buried there.
Just a fun fact, I have never heard it referred to specifically as the Boer war in South Africa, in English it always the Anglo-Boer wars, or rarely the freedom wars, and in Afrikaans it is the Vryheidsoorloë or Anglo-Boereoorloë.
From South Africa, thanks for this
this was REALLY good like REALLY GOOD Good job
Awesome, glad you liked it!
yeah its the best history channel I have seen so far also I have never seen anyone cover the first boer so thank you forthat
Lekkere video Hilbert.
Dankje!
Or dankie!
(Hard to tell whether its Dutch or Afrikaans sometimes :P)
Nederlands en geen dank, ik heb pas kort geabonneerd maar je video's zijn merkwaardig. :)
History With Hilbert Afrikaans would be 'lekker'
Dankie dat jy ons geskiedenis vir mense vertel. Also your pronunciation of the Afrikaans words weren't too bad.
Antonio Pellegrino zowiezo
I'd love to see a video about how the British conquered India.
Good idea!
can you do one on the Haitian revolution
And how the Dutch conquered Indonesia.
PatrickA65 With guns and men and MONEY!!!!! MONEY, MONEY! MAKE IT RAIN! MONEY!!!!!!!
Phrenomythic Yes! I'm a coloured South African so literally have British Dutch Indonesian Indian Irish blood and so much more! South Africa has such an interesting history and it's awesome to learn about. Indonesia would be an awesome video
I love your Afrikaans. Its brilliant. And the history is spot on. Especially on a topic so obscure. Groette en liefde van uit die Oranje Vrystaat
groete* nie groette
I like the effort put into the pronunciation! Not quite a perfect Afrikaans accent yet, but great job man.
British empire:We have a unstoppable empire with thousands of Soldiers.
Some boers on a hill:Oi Joubert, skiet die rooi goed!
Great video. Thank you very much for making it.
Ik ben zo blij dat ik dit kanaal heb ontdekt 😍
jup same
Welkom allebij!
I enjoyed your Dutch! I now live in Australia from South Africa, and no one here can speak with a guttural "g", low in the throat. Even my english speaking South African friends could not reach that "Germanic-"G", as you did. Very good my man. One day the Boere will rule the world....I always say.
Im just now getting into this war.. Thank u for this upload..
Great vid keep up the good work.
Thanks man!
So enjoying your videos - please keep going!!!
Excellent video! Keep up the good work.
LOAO. Love it 100,000. Casualties for the Grits. For the Goers, one wounded when he twisted his ankle whilst picking a flower. God save the King
Volkslied van Transvaal:
Kent gij dat volk vol heldenmoed
En toch zo lang geknecht?
Het heeft geofferd goed en bloed
Voor vrijheid en voor recht
Komt burgers!
Laat de vlaggen wapp'ren
Ons lijden is voorbij
Roemt in de zege onzer dapp'ren
Dat vrije volk zijn wij!
I descended from the British here. My ancestor loved South Africa so much he stayed
Well done lad. Very interesting.
Tullius Agrippa Thank you!
I speak Afrikaans a bit, I learned it mostly from a friend in Pretoria. It's a very easy language to pick up, and if you know some Dutch you can pick it up very fast. If you're ever interested in language learning and/or language exchange resources, I can hook you up. Jou kanaal is baie awesome.
Im an Afrikaans Boer,and i must say what an awesome vid,good on you! Your Afrikaans is good!!
Nice work as usual, Hilbert.
Great video of our history, baaie dankie!!
This relates to what i have been told. My first name (Colin) comes from my mother's second name (Colley), which came from her maternal grandmother's surname. who happened to be General Sir Colley,'s sister. From what I've heard, they mourned his death, but supported the Boer cause.
love anything about this period my grandad was a nsw mounted in the period 1900 -1902 wounded twice and survived,never knew him sadly his medals are at the museum Victoria barracks, I have duplicate, he died in 1930 his serial number was 99 .my dad never spoke about him?
"You don't object to our help do you?"
"It all depends on what you damned English want for it, afterwards"
The lines that led me to my first introduction to the boer war.
The first sentence I ever learned in Dutch was "Neuken in de Keuken". Just thought I would share that...
Baltic Fox Hahaha xD
Baltic Fox you have been taught well. The very essence of Dutch existence and you don't need much other vocabulary.
Same actually. hahahaha
Me too.
Your pronunciations are not bad. Thank you very much for including Afrikaans
Dude your pronounciation is on point! Good job mate. Cheers
Did the success of the Boers' tactics in these wars cause the Germans to conclude that the only way to defeat insurgencies was extreme brutality, reinforcing the "Bandit fighting" doctrine that was so infamously used on the Eastern Front in both world wars?
Great video. The Boers should have their own state in Africa or at least reservations like with the Indians in the states
I love the comedy you threw into these
Your pronouncement is surprisingly good nice work!!
Fantastic Afrikaans and pronunciation of places. Great informative video. More about South African history please
Hilbert YOU ARE FUNNIER THAN YOU KNOW!! Yet in all what a wonderful way to remember history. Bet those in your audience that found history hard to remember wish they had you around to teach them. Thanks again for a very inventive presentation.
Q: 1 thing I am confused on, though. What were Highlanders doing all the way down in Africa!! Were they sent for by the British as reinforcements? Please explain.
04:55 Correction, the Boers were never scared.
If you do want to do the videos in Afrikaans, I can help! I can help with any translation and pronunciation stuff if you need.
Also, will you ever do a video on the wars between the Bantu peoples? I think it would be a very interesting topic
And great video btw, I'm enjoying your stuff on South Africa.
Please say yes to this man. Your pronunciation was better than DiCaprio in Blood Diamond, but could use a little help from time to time. I smiled a bit when you said Transvaal. Maybe Vaughn you can translate for subtitles? I know it is not the same, but it would help him a bit I dunno.
Zman Sephoroth I'll do the best I can with the subtitles in the meantime
3rd party subtitles don't seem to be enabled unfortunately, there isn't even a transcript that isn't auto-generated
Vaughn Oosthuizen He already has it in Dutch
I like the way you explain these videos. Can you do one on the second boer war?
*Braai* - lekker man!!
great vid thank you
Great video man! Do you already have or could make a video about the Celtic Britons? That's be great imo since we know so little about them
Thanks for watching :) I was thinking about looking at some of the Britons of England and what happened to them during and after the Anglo-Saxon Invasion.
Why not state that Majuba was the greatest defeat of the British empire's history as the boers did not even lose one person that day and the british lost hundreds!
"Why die when you can braai?" Fantastic.
Also, lil editing mishap around 09:00 when you can hear both a stutter, a key press and the retake.
But otherwise very informative video. Well done.
UnderTheSun Thank you xD
Yep, I noticed this when I was watching it back - apologies xD
History With Hilbert No worries. Also I didn't see the very end bit because I tabbed away, but saw it now.
I can't believe you don't speak Afrikaans. Your pronounciation is honestly excellent. Especially as bad Afrikaans pronounciation is excruciating to listen to.
Do you mind me asking where you're from or how you came to know how to speak bits of it?
nice video.. makes me think of the books of Herman Charles Bosman, he writes about a leopard in one of his stories, I think in the collection Mafeking Road & Other Stories, anyway the leopard is causing consternation in the district, everyone is trying to kill the leopard as the creature is killing cattle. Anyway the protagonist claims that the amount of shooting going on reminds him of the first Boer war and the amount of running away reminds him of the second Boer war. wonderful short stories, I would recommend them. Another fantastic book about the second Boer war is Denys Reitz's memoir "On Commando", one of the best books I have ever read about a personal account in a war.
I grew up under apartheid schooling and with all the propaganda, there strangely was not much focus on either Boer Wars. In non-white schooling that’s is. The history focused heavy on the persecuting of the boers by the English (minus the whole abolishment of slavery off course) but stopped short of the Boer Wars. The absolute dominance and tactical superiority of the Boers up until Colenso, you think would have been worth mentioning. Great video, thank you. Can I suggest the Anglo Boer War podcast by a guy called Des Latham. It is on the Second War, but truly excellent
It can't be a coincidence that I got an ad for diamond jewelery on this video
History With Hilbert: baie dankie vir die stukkie geskiedenis..
I did enjoy it.
It amazes me how much ass we kicked back in the day.
Thank you for this and for you afrikaans! You have won a subscriber!!
wait you do the native tongue which quotes as well. nice. it gives a feel like the person is actually talking to you, good work Herbert.
Great stuff man!
That farmer was lucky that his wagon wasn't attacked by a British battle train... Wait, battle trains are the wrong boer war
Hehe aye that was the next one along ;)
Hey Hilbert, how about you make another dutch colonial history (Caribbean, Suriname and Indonesia), and of course a story about dutch golden age and VOC . Greetings from Indonesia
oh yes Indonesia. how do they respond to questions say from Hilbert about your colony? Did the dutch turn you into slaves?
Great video 👊👊
Thanks man!
Enjoyed this one.
Thanks man, I'm glad!
'...a bit of cloth with the colours drawn on it...' !!!!! May the ghosts strike your heart out!
Awesome work and nice video ! Can you do the second boer war please ?
I enjoyed this. I studied some of our history at school, but it was never as interesting as this.
First time watching, solid vid, loved the detail on the battles and how good your attempt at Afrikaans was, can tell you know some Dutch
Awesome, thank you so much!
Brilliant episode