I'm reading about all the Irish commandos in the Boer War.
How did all these Irish and American citizens even get to the Boerstaats? The British had isolated the two republics for almost a century prior to the war, so they were completely surrounded by the British.
The entire war was about British demographic shifts because of them trying to get in on the gold fields, lots of Irish and Americans did the same but liked Boers more than they did the British