| 单词 | boer war |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBoer War Boer War n. the South African war (1899–1902) between the two Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State, and Great Britain and her colonies; cf. Anglo-Boer adj. Also: the war of 1880–1 between British forces and the Transvaal. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war Punic War1556 Vandal war1613 American Civil War1775 Seven Years War1775 Revolutionary Wara1784 Peninsular war1811 Great War1815 Mormon war1833 opium war1841 the Thirty Years' War1841 the Thirty Years' War1842 Mexican War1846 Napoleonic War1850 Crimean War1854 Hundred Years War1874 Balkan war1881 Boer War1883 Winter War1939 Six Day War1967 Yom Kippur War1973 Gulf War1981 Falklands conflict1982 1883 T. F. Carter (title) A Narrative of the Boer War: Its Causes and Results. 1893 Brown's S. Afr. 209 The town served as the base of the British military operations during the disastrous Boer war and the treaty of peace was signed here in 1881. 1899 Morning Post 19 Sept. 6/2 Officers for the Boer War. 1899 G. Meredith Let. 27 Oct. (1970) III. 1337 I need patience even to speak of this Boer War.] 1900 C. M. Yonge Let. 17 July in C. R. Coleridge C. M. Yonge: Life & Lett. (1903) xii. 345 Aimée tried to explain the rights of the Boer War. 1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. v. 587 He..figuratively marched across the road to the Canning..galvanizing..the Oxford Tories now wilting under the strain of the Boer war. 1955 G. Greene Quiet Amer. i. iv. 52 Like a panorama of the Boer War in an old Illustrated London News. 1981 H. Domisse in D. Harrison White Tribe Afr. i. 24 This Boer War, was the stupidest war the English ever carried on. 2009 A. S. Byatt Children's Bk. (2010) xx. 231 The Imperialists, who supported the British army in the Boer War,..believed in spreading the virtues of British democracy throughout the world. < as lemmas |
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