Kitchener, Horatio

has biography | a une biographie: Senior British Army officer and colonial administrator in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kitchener served as Sirdar of the Egyptian Army (1892-1899), Governor General of the Sudan (1899), Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in South Africa (1900-1902), Commander-in-Chief, India (1902-1909), British Consul-General in Egypt (1911-1914), and Secretary of State for War (1914-1916).

Kitchener's colonial legacy has been defined, above all, by his decision to use concentration camps against Boer and black African civilians during the Second Boer War (1899-1902), with over 150,000 people interned in British camps across South Africa. An estimated 28,000 Boers and 20,000 black Africans died in these camps during the conflict.
was born | est né: 24 June 1850
died in | est mort par: 5 June 1916
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia - Horatio Kitchener; Wikipedia - Battle of Omdurman; Wikipedia - Second Boer War concentration camps; British Concentration Camps of the South African War 1900-1902 database; Art UK; National Portrait Gallery

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1902, Treaty of Vereeniging ends the Second Boer War

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Equestrian statue of Horatio Kitchener, Medway
Statue of Horatio Kitchener, Westminster