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E-0081883event Anglo-Boer War 2: Angus Hamilton of The Times criticises Baden-Powell’s harsh ‘leave here-or-starve’ policy towards Blacks in t13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081701event Anglo-Boer War 2: Comdt Jan H. Theron, Danie Theron’s successor as commander of Theron’s Scouts, dies of gastric fever in the C13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083486event Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops arrive at the Renoster River only to find that the Boers have destroyed the bridge.18 May 2012✓
E-0083163event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British prime minister, the Marquis of Salisbury, states that Britain’s successes in the South African ca11 May 2012✓
E-0082443event Anglo-Boer War 2: An official report states that British columns have completely or partially destroyed 158 farms and an unknow30 Apr 2012–
E-0082369event Anglo-Boer War 2: An official report states that British columns have completely or partially destroyed 158 farms and an unknow23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081202event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Lord Methuen buries Combat-General De Villebois-Mareuil with full military honours. 1500 men of the L30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081118event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Natal prime minister A.H. Hime complains to Gen. Hilyard that Col. Bottomley is exceeding his instruction30 Mar 2012✓
E-0069956event Anglo-Boer War 2: Major-General Smith-Dorrien, leaving only the church standing, razes the town of Dullstroom to the ground.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069955event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battles of Belmont, western front, and Willow Grange, Natal front, started on the day before, continue.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069913event Anglo-Boer War 2: During the Battle of Willow Grange, two British soldiers and two burghers are knocked unconscious by lightnin21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069677event Anglo-Boer War 2: a White Paper is published by the British government explaining the need for concentration camps in South Afr11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070545event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Russian czar rejects President Paul Kruger’s pleas for official aid in South Africa against the British.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070229event Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, war correspondent during Anglo-Boer War 2 and later premier of Britain, is born in Oxfor25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071205event Anglo-Boer War 2: The inaugural meeting of the Burgher Peace Committee is held in Pretoria. Lord Kitchener discusses his concen14 Dec 2011✓
E-0070960event Josef Johannes (Jopie) Fourie, scout and dispatch-rider during Anglo-Boer War 2, and rebel commando leader during the 1914 Rebe9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070886event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Magersfontein continues. At about midday the British retire to their camp at Modder River.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070796event Anglo-Boer War 2: British General Gatacre is defeated in the Battle at Stormberg Junction by the Republican forces under Chief9 Dec 2011✓
E-0072720event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Mafeking siege: Two Black cattle-herds are captured and summarily executed at Mafeking by burghers, in acco16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072957event Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse, English nurse who visited the Transvaal and Orange Free Sate Republics during the South Afric20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072956event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British, under General Warren, surrenders to General Botha at Spioenkop. At least 1 000 British and sixty20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071789event Gen. Johannes (Jan) Gerhardus Celliers (70), initiator of the method to fire in full pursuit during Anglo-Boer War 2, dies.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071404event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Helvetia near Machadodorp takes place, with the British under Major Cotton surrendering to Gene14 Dec 2011✓
E-0069482event Anglo-Boer War 2: Generals Piet Joubert and Louis Botha cross the Tugela River and head down the railway line to Pietermaritzbu11 Nov 2011–
E-0093061event Anglo-Boer War 2: In the Battle of Modderspruit, Commandant General Piet Joubert causes the British to fall back.  He is urged28 Aug 2012✓
E-0087876event Anglo-Boer War 2: The complete Free State Executive Council, except the president who escaped with the help of Ruiter, 29 perso6 Jul 2012✓
E-0087874event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Silkaatsnek, west of Pretoria, starts with Gen. De la Rey launching a three-pronged attack on t6 Jul 2012✓
E-0087765event William Philip Schreiner, prime minister in the Cape Colony at the start of Anglo-Boer War 2, summarises the pressure his gover6 Jul 2012✓
E-0089431event Anglo-Boer War 2:  In Bethlehem, OFS, a Black man called Frans is tried by the British, found guilty, sentenced to death and h31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089391event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Gen J.C. Smuts reports on the devastation of the Orange Free State by the British forces: “Dams everywhere31 Jul 2012✓

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