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Anglo-Boer War 2: At Buffelshoek, a council of war adopts De Wet’s proposal to reduce the number of wagons to one per twenty-
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Smuts’ force finds a sheep kraal at Koot Krause’s farm that the British have filled with sheep and the
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Ian Hamilton, commanding a force of about 6 000 men with twenty-six field guns, is sent to capture Co
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The two-day Battle of Diamond Hill or Donkerhoek, started on the previous day, ends when darkness sets in a
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Lieutenant-Colonel M.O. Little, commanding the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of 738 mounted men, is ordered in the direc
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Chief Commandant De Wet, Pres. Steyn and members of the Free State government break out of the Brandwater Basi
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Free State government is to dispense with the idea of a capital, and they become a government ‘in the fie
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour reads the terms of surrender to the House of Commons in London after th
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The battle of Roodewal Siding takes place near Koppies, OFS. Gen. De Wet and eighty men attack two comp
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Salisbury, British premier, rejects the offer of Pres. McKinley of America to act as mediator in the war
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Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson promises in his opening of the Cape parliament that all Cape rebels who fought in Anglo-Boer War 2 w
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Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson promises in his opening of the Cape parliament that all Cape rebels who fought in Anglo-Boer War 2 w
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Sir George White, who arrived in Cape Town on 3 October and in Durban on 7 October, proceeds to Ladysmith, wh
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Gen. Christiaan Rudolph de Wet, chief commandant of the Free State forces during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born on the farm Leeuwkop
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Bergendal or Dalmanutha on the Rand takes place, with the Republican forces falling back at nig
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Anglo-Boer War 2: At a joint secret meeting of the ZAR’s First and Second Volksrade, the motion to issue the ultimatum to Brita
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Captain R.D.C. Miers of the South African Constabulary is shot and killed under a flag of truce by Field-corn
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Anglo-Boer War 2: As result of a military notice on this date, the first two refugee camps are established at Pretoria and Bloe
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Despite the concessions made by the ZAR in its final proposal, Sir A. Milner urges the despatch of an expedit
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Anglo-Boer War 2: End of the ‘first De Wet hunt’. De Wet’s entire force crosses the unoccupied Olifants Nek Pass near Rusten
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Boer leader General Koos de la Rey, en route to Potchefstroom with general Beyers, is shot dead when his chauffeur-driven car f
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The young Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands puts the Gelderland at the disposal of Pres. Paul Kruger to jou
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Paul Kruger crosses the Transvaal border on his way to Lourenço Marques, from where he leaves for Eu
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British Secretary for War, St. John Broderick, tells the House of Commons that every effort is being made
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The tobacco industry in Hekpoort and Magaliesburg is in full swing again. The crop since the war (Anglo-Boer War 2) has bee
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. Bottomley writes a letter to King Dinizulu, ordering him to arm all his followers and to protect the Zul
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Jan (alias George) Malhombe is executed by the British under Baden-Powell because he was found guilty of stea
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N.C. Gey van Pittius founds the Republic of Goshen on land assigned to them by Machette of Kunwana, after Boer volunteers assis
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Jan (alias George) Malhombe is executed by the British under Baden-Powell because he was found guilty of stea
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