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The Boer War was the first war to be waged in the twentieth century. During this war both sides, the Boers and the British, used modern “high-velocity” weapons. However, whereas the Boers were armed with 7mm Mauser rifles, the British employed the 0.303 Lee Metford. The effect of these high-velocity weapons was less devastating than that of the weapons fired in previous wars. Both sides, it might be noted, usually refrained from using dumdum bullets.
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Dolev, E. (1986). Medicine and the Boer War a Comment. In: Ullmann-Margalit, E. (eds) The Prism of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 95. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4566-1_10
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