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This is a list of blockhouses built by the British Empire in South Africa during the Second Anglo-Boer War from 1899–1901. Of the fortifications constructed during the war, around 441 were solid masonry blockhouses, many of which stand today. Different designs were used in the construction, but most were either two or three story structures built using locally quarried stone.

See also

• South African Heritage Resources Agency
• South African National Museum of Military History
• Provincial heritage site (South Africa)
• Military history of South Africa
• List of castles in Africa
• History of South Africa
• List of castles
• List of forts

References

1. Tomlinson, Richard. "Britain's Last Castles – Masonry Blockhouses of the South African War, 1899–1902". Military History Journal. 10 (6). The South African Military History Society. Retrieved 14 February 2009.

• van Vollenhoven, Anton C (December 2021) . "Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses: A military engineer's perspective by SC GreenGreenSC, Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses: A military engineer's perspective, Porcupine Press, Johannesburg, 2020, 310 pp, ISBN: 978-1-9284-5556-1". South African Journal of Cultural History. 35 (2): 204–205. doi:10.54272/sach.2021.v35n2a12. ISSN 1011-3053. S2CID 248876555.
• "South African Military History Society - Journal- BRITAin's LAST CASTLES Masonry Blockhouses of the South African War, 1899-1902".

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