You forgot the Boar War in your list, Barry.
Britain, with regiments from Australia and Canada included, ended up investing 250,000 soldiers in South Africa, to conquer territories inhabited by Dutch people, and take over the diamond, gold and platinum mines.
The British government of that period introduced Apartheid to South Africa, and used the tribal Africans to work in the mines.
The mine-owners were usually British aristocratic families, with vested interests from various other financial sectors.
To this day, tribal Africans still work the mines, others reap the profits.
