My entire being was filled with sympathy for the Boers, and without hesitation, I firmly decided I would help the freedom-loving small people whom England was threatening to destroy. The situation of the Boers somehow reminded me of my homeland, and I believed that if I fought against the enemy of the Boers, it would mean that I was also avenging my country's enemies.
Upon arriving in South Africa from Egypt, Niko met the President of the Transvaal, Paul Kruger, who received the descendant of the Bagrationi family, the Georgian prince, with great honor and enlisted him in the Transvaal army. The Boers used this fact for PR purposes and published it in newspapers to show the world that a prince was fighting in their support. The Anglo-Boer War, despite the immense numerical superiority of the English (the half-million British army fought against up to 80,000 Boers), lasted for three years due to the steadfast resistance of the freedom-loving Boers.
The English treated Boer prisoners of war brutally and showed no mercy to the civilian population, while the Boers treated English prisoners with dignity and quickly released them. One day Niko and his unit captured Winston Churchill, the future Prime Minister of Great Britain. Towards the end of the war, the Boers switched to guerrilla tactics and inflicted significant losses on the English, but victory was not in their favor. During one of the battles, Niko Bagrationi, along with the Boer forces, was captured as a prisoner.