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Robert Jutrzenka and Ludwik Zalewski arrived in the South African Republic a few years before the start of the Second Boer War and took an active part in the armed clash in 1895 during the Jameson Raid. Other volunteers came as subjects of the Russian Tsar. Among them were two lieutenants, Leo Pokrowsky and Eugeniusz Augustus. Both were ...
Hendrik Frederik Prinsloo (18 August 1890 – 20 November 1966) was a South African army officer.As a 12-year-old boy, he was interned by the British in a concentration camp during the Anglo-Boer War but served alongside the British in the South African forces during the two World Wars.
The Maritz Rebellion (also known as the Boer Revolt, the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War) occurred in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against the German ...
[2] [6] The battle raged all day and at dusk Oosthuizen was seriously wounded when he tried in vain to capture the English cannons, with only a few burghers. He died from his wounds on 14 August 1900. [7] The British withdrew while the Boers were too weak to follow up. [1] [2] British general Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien (1858–1930).
People associated with the Second Boer War (1899-1902) — fought in South Africa. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
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They were recruited in significant numbers towards the end of the war from Afrikaner prisoners and defectors, and were commonly known as hensoppers (Afrikaans for Hands-uppers) or joiners among the Boers. [2] [3] Many of their fellow citizens despised them as traitors so that the label of National Scout became a swear word. According to ...
The remnants of Boer government resolved to fight on in a guerrilla war, to try to force the British to retreat from the territory. As it became clear that military victory was unlikely, opinion among the guerrillas divided between those who wanted to secure a negotiated peace and those who preferred to fight on to "the bitter end " ( Afrikaans ...