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The story of Canada in the South African War is a complex one. How it even came about that the Canadian Government agreed to the dispatch of troops has its many talking points.Serving as units integrated within a larger British force, several contingents were sent during the course of the conflict, the first being the 2nd (Special Service) Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry. Subsequent contingents were made up mostly of mount...

In the spring of 1870 an Anglo-Canadian military force began an epic journey through the wilderness to take control of the vast Hudson's Bay Company lands on behalf of the newly created Dominion of Canada. In command was Colonel Garnet Wolseley, who would rise to become the Commander in Chief of the British Army. This was to be his first independen