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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lieutenant-Colonel R.G. Kekewich arrives in Kimberley to assess the military situation and to advise the new
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The governor of Portuguese East Africa, J.J. Machado, invites Pres. Kruger to stay in the official residenc
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Representatives of the ZAR and the Free State governments meet in Nelspruit and decide to allow President K
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Anglo-Boer War 2: At Vlakfontein (the present day Derby), Gen. Kemp attacks Brigadier-Gen. Dixon and captures the field guns. D
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Kruger wires Pres. Steyn that only a handful of ZAR burghers are willing to continue the struggle.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The officially reported Black concentration camp population in the sixty-six Black camps reach 115,700. 523
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lady Edward (Violet) Cecil writes to Lord Salisbury on the conditions in Bloemfontein: “Far more people have
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Anglo-Boer War 2: President Kruger leaves Pretoria for Machadodorp, the newly declared capital of the ZAR. He leaves his inva
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Louis Botha visits Johannesburg two days before British occupation and asks the residents not to resist
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The peace proposals, as approved by the British Cabinet, are wired to Lord Milner and Lord Kitchener.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Angus Hamilton of The Times criticises Baden-Powell’s harsh ‘leave here-or-starve’ policy towards Blacks in t
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Comdt Jan H. Theron, Danie Theron’s successor as commander of Theron’s Scouts, dies of gastric fever in the C
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British prime minister, the Marquis of Salisbury, states that Britain’s successes in the South African ca
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Anglo-Boer War 2: An official report states that British columns have completely or partially destroyed 158 farms and an unknow
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Anglo-Boer War 2: An official report states that British columns have completely or partially destroyed 158 farms and an unknow
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The first Thirstland Trek, exodus of Boer families through Northern Bechuanaland to Angola that started in 1874 under the lea
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Lord Methuen buries Combat-General De Villebois-Mareuil with full military honours. 1500 men of the L
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Natal prime minister A.H. Hime complains to Gen. Hilyard that Col. Bottomley is exceeding his instruction
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Major-General Smith-Dorrien, leaving only the church standing, razes the town of Dullstroom to the ground.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battles of Belmont, western front, and Willow Grange, Natal front, started on the day before, continue.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: During the Battle of Willow Grange, two British soldiers and two burghers are knocked unconscious by lightnin
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Anglo-Boer War 2: a White Paper is published by the British government explaining the need for concentration camps in South Afr
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Russian czar rejects President Paul Kruger’s pleas for official aid in South Africa against the British.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, war correspondent during Anglo-Boer War 2 and later premier of Britain, is born in Oxfor
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The inaugural meeting of the Burgher Peace Committee is held in Pretoria. Lord Kitchener discusses his concen
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Josef Johannes (Jopie) Fourie, scout and dispatch-rider during Anglo-Boer War 2, and rebel commando leader during the 1914 Rebe
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Magersfontein continues. At about midday the British retire to their camp at Modder River.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British General Gatacre is defeated in the Battle at Stormberg Junction by the Republican forces under Chief
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Mafeking siege: Two Black cattle-herds are captured and summarily executed at Mafeking by burghers, in acco
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