The Boer War and the Media (1899–1902)
The South African War that broke out in October 1899 was both very old and very new. It was a traditional war, the last of the old fashioned British imperial wars, with cavalry playing a significant part. But it was also a very modern war, for instance in the British Army's use of railways to subdue the Boers in the early months of 1900, or the use of trench warfare by the Boers along the Modder river. It was disturbingly new in the way that it changed in   