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• Motivating Factors in Foreign Volunteering: Tibor Péchy’s Enlistment in the Anglo-Boer War

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  Gábor Szabó-Zsoldos

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  Twelve Hungarian volunteers have been identified so far among the 2,500 pro-Boer
  foreign volunteers who were ready to sacrifice their lives in the war between the Boer
  republics and the British Empire (1899–1902). The overwhelming majority of these
  volunteers travelled to South Africa to join the commandos of the Boers following the
  escalation of the conflict. Tibor Péchy was one of the Hungarian combatants, but in
  contrast with the other Hungarian volunteers, he had been living in South Africa since
  1896. This makes him a special Hungarian participant of the Anglo-Boer War. The present
  paper analyses the motivating factors behind Péchy’s enlistment with the Boers.