Anglo-Boer War 2: The British evacuate Rustenburg to occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek
… Transvaal burghers, or farmers, who had begun to think the war was at an end, had surrendered Rustenburg to Col. Robert … Baden-Powell. At this stage of the Second Anglo Boer War, set-piece battles had become futile, and the Boers, … under leaders like General De la Rey, had realized that war would now have to be conducted by unconventional means- …