American Boer wars

hi guys

I am currently studying the Boer war for one of my modules at university, and this got me thinking. Could the United States of America have become involved such a lengthly and bloody conflict on a simular scale to that of the Boer war? and in the same era as that of the Boer war? (i thinking 1895-1914)
 
Perhaps a continuation of the Indian Wars would do the trick. I guess you could say that there were some analogues in the terrain and some tactics used in the Indian Wars and the Boer Wars.

The first thing that pops into my mind is the forcible relocation of noncombatants (i.e. the concentration camps in South Africa, Native American reservations) to damage morale among the enemy.
 
hi guys

I am currently studying the Boer war for one of my modules at university, and this got me thinking. Could the United States of America have become involved such a lengthly and bloody conflict on a simular scale to that of the Boer war? and in the same era as that of the Boer war? (i thinking 1895-1914)

Have the US get horribly involved in Mexico around 1912. Or say that for some reason Pilipino resistance to the US gets far nastier, either because the US decide that Pilipinos are actually to be treated more like American Natives or because the Pilipinos actually resent the American presence much more.
Or maybe something really awful happens in, say, Haiti.
 
I don't think there were enough Indians in 1895 to put up a 19 year struggle. Especially if the US is putting any kind of effort into the fight.
 
Canadiens are mistreated and march of across the continent founding a nation on the west coast? When the Americans finally get there they have a nasty fight through the Rockies.
 
I think that the Natives are nowhere close to put in place the kind of resistance the Boers did. They technological and numerical disproportion with the Americans was far too great. Actually I wrote a sketchy story about them forcing a peace with the US around 1878 and creating a native federation, but the assumption was an alliance with a part of the White colonists. And it was far from likely as well.
 
Four Words - Don't Mess with Texas.

A larger French America in Louisiana/Texas and goes independent. America comes along and they become the Boer analogy.
 
I guess the Boers also had the help of European weaponry which they had before the war started, french artillery for example. I agree that the Native Americans had been mauled by the late 19th century. Mexico and the Phillipines sound intresting. Maybe if Mexico had a regime change, more based upon military modernisation (they may have done for all i know), it might ensure a better long term resistance.
 
Four Words - Don't Mess with Texas.

A larger French America in Louisiana/Texas and goes independent. America comes along and they become the Boer analogy.

That would happen much earlier, unless there are major changes.
But your idea about Lousiana might be interesting. I think that was around 1900 that the laws discouraging the official use of French started. If you have a larger Francophone community to start with, and you have the Spanish-American war cause a wave of hostility towards Catholics in America in some way, you could have escalating strife in Louisiana and maybe a full-fledged war at some point: maybe the French-speaking whites and blacks ally and try to secede. Add some fuss about oil field to make the analogy stricter

Or, what about a greater Spanish settlement in New Mexico, and the local Spanish-speaking people getting unhappy with the American rule?

But I think that both cases would not reach the scale of the Boer War.
 
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