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This is a really fascinating Boer who got up to really wild things after the Second Anglo Boer War. Known as the "Black Panther," Fritz Duquesne was a Boer soldier and saboteur driven by a burning hatred for the British, fueled by Lord Kitchener’s brutal scorched-earth policies and concentration camps that devastated Duquesne's family. After being captured during the Boer War, he staged a daring escape from a British prison camp in Bermuda in 1902 and made his way to America, where he worked as a journalist, adventurer, and even a hunting companion to Teddy Roosevelt. When World War One broke out, he began spying for Germany and later claimed credit for orchestrating the 1916 sinking of the HMS Hampshire that killed his nemesis, Lord Kitchener; however, he made this story up, and there is no historical evidence to support his involvement, as the ship actually struck a German naval mine. Here is a short documentary that explains what he got up to in America and how he ended up working for the Germans in World War Two.