Lord Kitchener And Louis Botha engage in doomed peace talks during the Second Anglo-Boer War

Date: 28 Feb 1900
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Lord Kitchener And Louis Botha engage in doomed peace talks during the Second Anglo-Boer War

On February 28 British commander Lord Kitchener met Boer commander Louis Botha at Middelburg. The talks ultimately came to nothing, resulting in Kitchener changing his military tactics and setting up barbed wire and block houses all over the Boer Republic, in order to combat the Boer fighters guerilla tactics.

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01Melrose House, Articles about the Anglo Boer War 1899 to 1902, from Melrose House, [online], Available at www.melrosehouse.co.za [Accessed: 31 January 2014]

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Lord Kitchener And Louis Botha engage in doomed peace talks during the Second Anglo-Boer War. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011204

South African History Online (2011) 'Lord Kitchener And Louis Botha engage in doomed peace talks during the Second Anglo-Boer War', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011204 (Accessed: 21 July 2026).

South African History Online, Lord Kitchener And Louis Botha engage in doomed peace talks during the Second Anglo-Boer War [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011204, (accessed 21 July 2026).

"Lord Kitchener And Louis Botha engage in doomed peace talks during the Second Anglo-Boer War." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011204. Accessed 21 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Lord Kitchener And Louis Botha engage in doomed peace talks during the Second Anglo-Boer War." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011204.