The Young Colonists

This volume for young adults is an historical fictional book and
was published in the late 19th century. It follows the adven-
tures of Dick Humphries and his family as they face two wars
in southern Africa...the Zulu War and later the First Boer War.

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More Information about the two wars:

The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Empire. From complex beginnings, the war is notable for several particularly bloody battles, as well as for being a landmark in the timeline of colonialism in the region. The war ended the Zulu nation's independence.**
**....summary from wikepedia
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The First Boer War started when the Dutch tried to resist the British when they tried to move their people into South Africa. The Dutch eventually moved to a part of the country called The Orange Free State.

The British tried to control all of southern Africa in the 19th
Century. They won control of the Cape of Good Hope in 1815
at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Many Dutch farmers did
not like Britain controlling the area. Some of them moved north and made a new country called the Orange Free State. In
1877 the British Army moved in to control the Orange Free
State in pursuit of diamonds, one of the Orange Free State's
rich natural resources.***
***.....summary from wikipedia