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Christiaan Rudolf De Wet. Three Years' War
Three Years' War
Table of Contents
Preface
THREE YEARS WAR
CHAPTER I
I Go on Commando as a Private Burgher
CHAPTER II
Nicholson's Nek
CHAPTER III
Ladysmith Besieged
CHAPTER IV
I am Appointed Vechtgeneraal
CHAPTER V
The Overwhelming Forces of Lord Roberts
CHAPTER VI
Paardeberg
CHAPTER VII
The Wild Flight from Poplar Grove
CHAPTER VIII
The Burghers Receive Permission to Return to their Homes
CHAPTER IX
Sanna's Post
CHAPTER X
Four Hundred and Seventy English taken Prisoner at Reddersburg
CHAPTER XI
An Unsuccessful Siege
CHAPTER XII
The English Swarm over our Country
CHAPTER XIII
Our Position at the End of May, 1900
CHAPTER XIV
Roodewal
CHAPTER XV
I Make Lord Kitchener's Acquaintance
CHAPTER XVI
Bethlehem is Captured by the English
CHAPTER XVII
The Surrender of Prinsloo
CHAPTER XVIII
I am Driven into the Transvaal
CHAPTER XIX
I Return to the Free State
CHAPTER XX
The Oath of Neutrality
CHAPTER XXI
Frederiksstad and Bothaville
CHAPTER XXII
My March to the South
CHAPTER XXIII
I Fail to Enter Cape Colony
CHAPTER XXIV
Wherein Something is Found About War against Women
CHAPTER XXV
I Again Attempt to Enter Cape Colony
CHAPTER XXVI
Darkness Proves my Salvation
CHAPTER XXVII
Was Ours a Guerilla War?
CHAPTER XXVIII
Negotiations with the Enemy
CHAPTER XXIX
President Steyn's Narrow Escape
CHAPTER XXX
The Last Proclamation
CHAPTER XXXI
Blockhouses and Night Attacks
CHAPTER XXXII
My Commando of Seven Hundred Men
CHAPTER XXXIII
A Success at Tweefontein
CHAPTER XXXIV
I Cut my Way Through Sixty Thousand Troops
CHAPTER XXXV
I go to the Transvaal with President Steyn
CHAPTER XXXVI
Peace Negotiations
CHAPTER XXXVII
The End of the War
CORRESPONDENCE
A LETTER FROM THE STATES-SECRETARY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC TO THE BRITISH AGENT AT PRETORIA
MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S TELEGRAMS:—
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE TWO PRESIDENTS AND LORD SALISBURY
Appendix A
REPORT OF THE MEETING OF THE GENERAL REPRESENTATIVES HELD AT VEREENIGING, IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC, ON THE 15th OF MAY, 1902, AND THE FOLLOWING DAYS
Friday, May 16th, 1902
Saturday, May 17th, 1902
Appendix B
THE CONFERENCE AT PRETORIA BETWEEN THE COMMISSION OF THE NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES AND LORDS KITCHENER AND MILNER (MAY 19th-MAY 28th, 1902)
Wednesday, May 28th, 1902
THE MIDDELBURG PROPOSAL
Appendix C
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE SPECIAL NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES AT VEREENIGING, SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC, THURSDAY, THE 29th OF MAY, 1902, AND THE FOLLOWING DAYS
May 29th, 1902
Friday, May 30th, 1902
Saturday, May 31st, 1902
Index
FOOTNOTES:
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Christiaan Rudolf De Wet
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We placed our sentries that evening with the greatest care. They were stationed not only at a distance from the camp, as Brandwachten,[13] but also close round the laager itself. We were especially careful, as it was rumoured that the English had armed the Zulus of Natal. Had this been true, it would have been necessary to exercise the utmost vigilance to guard against these barbarians.
Since the very beginning of our existence as a nation—in 1836—our people had been acquainted with black races, and bitter had been their experience. All that our voortrekkers[14] had suffered was indelibly stamped on our memory. We well knew what the Zulus could do under cover of darkness—their sanguinary night attacks were not easily forgotten. Their name of "night-wolves" had been well earned. Also we Free-Staters had endured much from the Basutos, in the wars of 1865 and 1867.
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