On May 31st the Boers and the British signed the Peace of Vereeniging. The agreement was an acknowledgement, and confirmation of the British rule over South Africa.
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Anglo Boer War, British soldiers fixing bayonets to repell an attack from the trenches around Ladysmith, South Africa. Getty Image
1902: South African Peace Agreement
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