The Zulu War (1879), or the Boer War (1899-1902), after which time it becomes unacceptable to film human remains?
The Anglo-Boer war museum in Bloemfontein, once a showpiece of apartheid propaganda, has adapted with the times.
It was from here that the great man plotted the defeat of Britain during the Boer war.
He said the defence secretary was delivering "plans for the smallest army since the Boer War" which was "a completely inadequate response".
Its Old Fort is a former prison that operated from pre-Boer War times in the late 19th Century and throughout the apartheid era until its closure in 1987.
His grandfather had fought against the British during the Anglo-Boer war.
Britain had in recent memory passed through two wars the Boer war and the Great War that had shown that swathes of its population were, literally, unfit to fight.
Mindful of the variety of interests different readers will take in South Africa's past, publishers have come out with a range of Boer war books, old and new.
Highlights included the Battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar, the Boer War, the Battle of Britain and even the Falklands war, all despatched in a couple of minutes each.
He was a connoisseur of fine wine and he never allowed his grievances over the Boer war, and over the gradual eclipse of Afrikaans by the English language in South Africa, to blind him to the glories of English literature.
The more pessimistic tend to see analogies with the early 20th Century, after the Boer War and before the cataclysm of 1914, and it is true there are similarities with the British debate about decline during that period and the current American introspection.
The 5th Royal Irish Lancers was formed in 1858 and first fought in a major conflict in the Boer War in 1899, as well as action in the First World War, although traces its origins to an Irish dragoons regiment dating back to 1689.
The four decades following America's first Gilded Age in the 1870s were pocked with dislocation: multiple financial panics, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the fall of the Manchu dynasty, the onset of the Mexican Revolution and Otto von Bismarck's German makeover.
One was that the war was not merely about empire and gold, but also about protecting black South Africans from Boer brutality.
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