| Comments: Queen Victoria decided
to give each of her soldiers fighting in the Boer War in South
Africa a Christmas gift, a tin of chocolate. This probably was the
first time that a reigning monarch ever gave such a personal gift to
their serving soldiers, thus a lot were kept as souvenirs. The
Boer War started in October 1899 and ended in May 1902 and cost the
British Government 200,000,000 pounds sterling and the human cost
was 20,000 imperial and colonial troops, the Boers lost over 7,000.
The British in Natal and Cape Colony were attacked by the Boers from
the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The crisis in the
Transvaal, was initiated the expansionist policies of the Afrikaners
who were in conflict with the British and the Africans.
This tin comes in three variants, "Fry",
"Cadbury" and "Rowntree"; see H2303. This
tin is either "Fry" or "Rowntree"?
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