Lord Milner leaves England to return to SA

Lord Alfred Milner, the British High Commissioner who played a prominent role in causing the South African War returned to South Africa to become British administrator for the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. His other responsibility was to negotiate a peace treaty that ended the South African War. Milner was also tasked with reconstructing South Africa. To that effect he introduced a policy of reconstruction dubbed "reconstruction under arms". Click here to read about Milner's reconstruction of South Africa.