The Military History Society of NSW

                                This is the "From the Editor" column from the Autumn 2025 Issue of Reconnaissance , the quarterly magazine of The Military History Society of New South Wales. Welcome to the Autumn 2025 Issue of Reconnaissance. When Pretoria, capital of the Boer Republic of Transvaal, surrendered to British supreme commander Field Marshal Lord Roberts in June 1900, a wave of relief rolled over the British Empire, along with a general expectation that the brutal and sometimes humiliating Anglo-Boer War was all but over. Few understood that the back of Boer resistance was far from broken, however, and that, deploying their cunning commando tactics, they would fight on for another two years, in some cases to the bitter end. But as Dr Barry Bridges points out in this issue’s cover feature, the task of managing the deep sense of disappointment and frustration flowing from the continuation of host...