Timeline of the... boer wars

PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE 25 SEPTEMBER - 13 OCTOBER 1915

Before the sun rose over the windswept pampas on the morning of 20 September 1835, the stillness of Porto Alegre was broken by the thunder of hooves and gunfire. A band of rebels launched a daring ass

MUKDEN, MANCHURIA, CHINA 23 FEBRUARY – 10 MARCH 1905

FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on

How Britain addressed security policy after Waterloo

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u