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Anglo-Boer War 2: Chief Commandant De Wet and Pres. Steyn arrive at Commando Nek, about four hours from Pretoria.
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Anglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in SA. The co
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Anglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in SA. The co
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Fifteen members of the notorious special British unit called the Bushveld Carbineers send a petition to Colon
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Rietfontein, near Dundee, Natal, takes place, with the British falling back to Ladysmith.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: John Tengu Jabavu, editor of Imvo Zabantsundu (Black Opinion) and future ANC member, denounces Britain’s “irr
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Anglo-Boer War 2: During a meeting held in the Vryheid district to elect delegates for the peace conference, Commandant-General
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Anglo-Boer War 2: During a meeting held in the Vryheid district to elect delegates for the peace conference, Commandant-General
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Anglo-Boer War 2: the British government publishes Lord Roberts’ criticisms of Buller and Warren over the handling of Spioenkop
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Lady Florence Caroline Dixie, war correspondent in the Anglo-Boer War 2 for the Morning Post, is born in London.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A ‘flying’ column that has sped its way straight from Kimberley (reinforced further by Canadian troops) comes
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Holkrantz massacre takes place. Qulusi-Zulu chief Sokhobobo takes an impi to recover cattle allegedly r
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Relief of Jammersberg Drift: The relief columns under Generals Hart and Barbazon arrive at Wepener. General D
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Relief of Jammersberg Drift: The relief columns under Generals Hart and Barbazon arrive at Wepener. General D
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A dynamite factory, which forms part of the Begbie Engineering Workshop, Johannesburg, is destroyed in an exp
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The battle of Mostertshoek, near Reddersburg, takes place. The beginning of a two-day battle between Genera
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Three Kgatla-Tswana regiments, armed by the British, attack a burgher laager at Derdepoort, east of Gaberones
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Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence) The Battle of Bronkhorstspruit takes place, four days after the war started, i
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The second Republican invasion of the Cape Colony starts under Commandant P.H. Kritzinger and General J.B.M.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Reports reach London of the large number of deaths in South African concentration camps. africanhistory.about
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Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence): After a period of passive resistance and repeated attempts by leaders to have
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Buller starts his fourth attempt to relieve Ladysmith, Natal. The British withdraw from their positions
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Christiaan de Wet invades the Cape Colony for the second time at Zanddrif, near Philippolis.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: George Frederick Labram, mechanical engineer who built ‘Long Cecil’ for the defence of Kimberley during the s
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Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence): The Battle of Ingogo Heights, near Schuinshoogte (also called the Battle of
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General Louis Botha, as chairman of the Boer committee, announces his intention of convening public meetings in Transvaal distr
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Abraham Esau, Calvinia Coloured leader and martyr who aided the British Imperial cause, is brutally assault
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Greylingstad takes place when Commandant Buys attacks the South Rand mine, near Greylingstad. P
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Anglo-Boer War 2: During the Battle of Tweefontein, (also Groenkop or Krismiskop) General De Wet surprises British soldiers. At
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Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… the Ndebele were defeated by a group of Dutch farmers (or Boers) who left the Cape Colony. Mzilikazi decided that the … and struggles for control over labour…