British Forces

First Concentration Camps

The English term "concentration camp" was first used to describe camps operated by the British in South Africa during this conflict. (1900 - 1902). The British got defeated in Battle time and time again by Boer forces much smaller than them.. So they tried a new tactic by taking all the Boer fighters women and children and sending them to concentration camps. The first Concentration Camps. Over 26,000 women and children were starved to death.