The '''First Boer War''' also known as the '''First Anglo-Boer War''' or the '''[[Transvaal]] War''', was fought from [[16 December]] [[1880]] until [[23 March]] [[1881]]. It was the first clash between the British and the Transvaal [[Boer]]s.

== References ==

<div class="references-small">* Duxbury, Geo. R. ''David and Goliath: The First War of Independence, 1880-1881'' (Johannesburg: SA National Museum of Military History, 1981).

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