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Anglo-Boer War 2 Poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling, summoned from Cape Town by Lord Roberts, arrives in Bloemfontein to join th
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Kruger and Pres. Steyn appoint Count Georges de Villebois-Mareuil as general in Kroonstad during the So
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The long-awaited report of the Ladies or Fawcett Commission Report on the concentration camps is discussed in
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A council of war at Poplar Grove, OFS, gives Danie Theron permission to form a Scout Corps consisting of abou
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Redvers Buller is dismissed as officer in command of the British forces, probably because of his defeat
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A unit of seventy-five Cape Police retires from Taung, urging the local Blacks to remain peaceful. The magist
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In a letter to King Bhunu of Swaziland, Commander-General Piet Joubert grants the king full powers, thus virt
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A crowd of stranded Black mineworkers block part of Marshall Street, but at night time the police persuade th
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Officially recorded camp population for White camps is 105 347 and the camp fatalities for August stand at
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Christiaan Andries van Niekerk, commandant in the Anglo-Boer War 2 (one of only six persons to vote against the conclusion of p
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Anglo Boer War 2: In terms of martial law regulations, the veteran Cape politician, John X Merriman, is confined to his farm ne
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Fort Prospect, about fifteen kilometres east of Itala, is defended by about 80 men under Captain Rowley of
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The attack on Fort Itala, occupied by the British, takes place with the British force retreating after fierce
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Bergendal, near Vanwyksvlei, starts. Gen. Joachim Fourie’s men force the 11th Hussars to retrea
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Anglo-Boer War 2 -In the Free State, Lieutenant-General E.L. Elliot’s drive ends. At the cost of only three British casualties,
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged attack by Gens. Accurate Republican shelling repulses Pag
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Battle of Elands River: One of Col. Hore’s men, having sneaked through the besieger’s lines, reaches the Brit
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Anglo-Boer War 2 -In the Free State, Lieutenant-General E.L. Elliot’s drive ends. At the cost of only three British casualties,
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Anglo-Boer War 2 -In the Free State, Lieutenant-General E.L. Elliot’s drive ends. At the cost of only three British casualties,
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged attack by Gens. Accurate Republican shelling repulses Pag
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged attack by Gens. Accurate Republican shelling repulses Pag
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Buller, with 12,000 men and forty-eight guns, attack Gen. Botha’s position at Paardeplaats, near Lyden
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The officially reported camp population of the White concentration camps is 116, 572 and the deaths for May a
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In answer to a question by St John Brodrick, Lord Kitchener admits providing firearms to 10 053 Africans and
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A squadron of Col. E.C. Bethune, under Capt. Geoff, runs into a well-placed ambush under Com. Blignaut at Sch
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A bomb blast damages Melrose House in Pretoria, where the peace treaty between the two Boer Republics and Britain was signed in
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In an attempt to unite the two Boer republics, the commandoes of the Free State and Transvaal (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) con
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The first ‘Mafeking night”. In an unprecedented display of public emotions, life in the great cities in Bri
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