First Boer War [ First South African War | Transvaal Revolt | Anglo-Transvaal War | Transvaal War of Independence | First Anglo-Boer War | First War of Freedom ]

South African War [ Second South African War | Anglo-Boer War | Second Anglo-Boer War | Boer War | Second Boer War | Second War of Freedom ]

The first time was in 1749, a French militia, and subsequently in the War of 1812, the South African War, the First World War, the Second World War, Korea, peacekeepers, Afghanistan.

I would like to share with members some of the names of so many of our heroes, over two and a half million Canadians, who donned the uniform of Canada: people like William Hall, an African Nova Scotian who received the Victoria Cross in Lucknow, India; John MacRae who served in the Boer War and in World War I and who gave us that famous poem In Flanders Fields; Smokey Smith from British Columbia who fought bravely in Italy and earned the Victoria Cross; and Tommy Prince, a brave first nations aboriginal with the Devil's Brigade in World War II. We must not forget that the first nations people in Canada were exempt from going to war b ...[+++]ut they went anyway to serve their country.

This awesome technology — the Dreadnought — became one of the root causes of World War I. The first decade witnessed both the Russian-Japan War and the Boer War.

The strategic culture and the strategic history of Canada is one of expeditionary forces being sent abroad, starting with the Boer War, the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War and then into NATO deployments in Europe and being stationed there from 1950 on.