Word: mistaken
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...policy of the Boers has often been short-sighted and that England is acting as any other great power would probably act in her place. I sympathize with the Boers because they are fighting heroically for their national existence and for the right to govern their own land. However mistaken they may have been in many of their acts, they have only acted in self defense. I am convinced that until almost the last moment hostilities could have been avoided by England, while the Boers were left with no choice but war or surrender. If their country had been less...