Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… wounded and taken prisoner. During the first months of 1902, Kitchener sought to induce surrender by erecting a vast … elusive. Conditions were desperate when on 25 February 1902 De la Rey ambushed a British column at Ysterspruit and … in ultimate victory firmed. At Tweebosch, on 7 March 1902, Methuen tried to encircle De la Rey but was himself …