# So I'm reading and thinking anew about the Second Boer War

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**Created:** [September 22, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-reading-and-thinking-anew-about-the-second-boer-war/732174 "2015-09-22T02:46:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-reading-and-thinking-anew-about-the-second-boer-war/732174/21 "2015-09-22T19:45:47Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> To be fair, the Cornfeds didn’t starve their POWs because they were trying to get rid of them, they did it because it was all they could do to keep their own troops at the front minimally supplied with food.

Which they didn’t want anyway, it was Sherman and Grant that made the correct call and decided to ditch the Dix-Hill Cartel.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-reading-and-thinking-anew-about-the-second-boer-war/732174/22 "2015-09-22T20:41:18Z")

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> [@txjim](#):
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> Tell that to the POWs kept on British prision ships in New York  
> [http://www.thedearsurprise.com/the-wretched-prison-ships/](http://www.thedearsurprise.com/the-wretched-prison-ships/)

terrible, horrible things, no doubt, but I’d hesitate to call them “camps”

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