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Medicine and the Boer War a Comment

1986; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-94-009-4566-1_10

2214-7942

Eran Dolev,

Medical History and Innovations

The Boer War was the first war to be waged in the twentieth century. During this war both sides, the Boers and the British, used modern “high-velocity” weapons. However, whereas the Boers were armed with 7mm Mauser rifles, the British employed the 0.303 Lee Metford. The effect of these high-velocity weapons was less devastating than that of the weapons fired in previous wars. Both sides, it might be noted, usually refrained from using dumdum bullets.