Forsyth County, Georgia (GA) County population in 2014: 204,302 (90% urban, 10% rural); it was 98,407 in 2000. County owner-occupied with a mortgage or a loan houses and condos in 2010: 43,225. County owner-occupied free and clear houses and condos in 2010: 7,651.
The conflict is commonly referred to as simply the Boer War, since the First Boer War (December 1880 to March 1881) is much less well known.  Boers  was the common term for Afrikaans-speaking settlers in southern Africa at the time.
South African War: Boer seige of Ladysmith, 1900Photos.com/ThinkstockThe course of the war can be divided into three periods. During the first phase, the British in Southern Africa were unprepared and militarily weak. Boer armies attacked on two fronts: into the British colony of Natal from the SAR and into the northern Cape Colony from the Orange Free State.