Three Years' War

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Author

De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf, 1854-1922

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E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Taavi Kalju, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

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DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa

Subject

South Africa -- Biography

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18794

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Release Date

July 8, 2006

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THREE YEARS' WAR — BY
2. 2.CHRISTIAAN RUDOLF DE WET — FRONTISPIECE BY — JOHN S. SARGENT, R.A. — FOUR PLANS AND A MAP — TO MY FELLOW SUBJECTS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
3. 3.Preface
4. 4.Contents
5. 5.THREE YEARS WAR
6. 6.CHAPTER I — I Go on Commando as a Private Burgher
7. 7.CHAPTER II — Nicholson's Nek
8. 8.CHAPTER III — Ladysmith Besieged
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — I am Appointed Vechtgeneraal
10. 10.CHAPTER V — The Overwhelming Forces of Lord Roberts
11. 11.CHAPTER VI — Paardeberg
12. 12.CHAPTER VII — The Wild Flight from Poplar Grove
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII — The Burghers Receive Permission to Return to their Homes
14. 14.CHAPTER IX — Sanna's Post
15. 15.CHAPTER X — Four Hundred and Seventy English taken Prisoner at Reddersburg
16. 16.CHAPTER XI — An Unsuccessful Siege
17. 17.CHAPTER XII — The English Swarm over our Country
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII — Our Position at the End of May, 1900
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV — Roodewal
20. 20.CHAPTER XV — I Make Lord Kitchener's Acquaintance
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI — Bethlehem is Captured by the English
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII — The Surrender of Prinsloo
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII — I am Driven into the Transvaal
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX — I Return to the Free State
25. 25.CHAPTER XX — The Oath of Neutrality
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI — Frederiksstad and Bothaville
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII — My March to the South
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII — I Fail to Enter Cape Colony
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV — Wherein Something is Found About War against Women
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV — I Again Attempt to Enter Cape Colony
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI — Darkness Proves my Salvation
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII — Was Ours a Guerilla War?
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII — Negotiations with the Enemy
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX — President Steyn's Narrow Escape
35. 35.CHAPTER XXX — The Last Proclamation
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI — Blockhouses and Night Attacks
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII — My Commando of Seven Hundred Men
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII — A Success at Tweefontein
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV — I Cut my Way Through Sixty Thousand Troops
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXV — I go to the Transvaal with President Steyn
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVI — Peace Negotiations
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVII — The End of the War
43. 43.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
44. 44.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.
45. 45.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.
46. 46.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.
47. 47.Index — FOOTNOTES:

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