Impact of the Boer War and Indian Mutiny on migration

Expansion and Empire

Painting depicting mutinous sepoys dividing spoils during the Great Rebellion
Image caption,
The Indian Munity, 1957

In the 19th century the British were involved in a number of colonial wars in Africa, ending with the Boer War in 1899-1902. They also fought Indian forces in the 1857 Rebellion, which was also known as the Indian Mutiny. None of these wars caused any major migrations to or from Britain.