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South Africa, principally Natal...
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It was fought in what is today named South Africa; As the British took over the land the Dutch had stolen from the Black indigenous peoples.
Russia & Japan were fighting over control of portions of the Chinese mainland; Manchuria and Korea (Russia wanted an ice free seaport/Japan didn't want an enemy so close to Japan). 1904-1905...
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