On the Fact that Even Though the Boers Chalked-Up One Victory After Another (In the Second Anglo-Boer War), Their Primary Goal of Getting the Brits to Negotiate In Good Faith Proved Little More than a Pipe-Dream

Yeah, I guess that when you're outnumbered more than ten to one (with part of that advantage being oodles and oodles of working-class cannon-fodder), possess less effective artillery, and have as an adversary one that punishes civilians as part of an overall scorched-earth policy, the final result is more or less baked into the cake. Sadly (as the Boers were clearly the good guys here, desiring little more than to not be subjugated).