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The Boer War

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by Martin Bossenbroek


  Hancock and Van der Poel, Selections I, 397–399; Leyds, Vierde verzameling I, xxii, 252–254.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 241–245; Grobler, War Reporter, 116, 118; Grundlingh, ‘Hendsoppers’, 153; Hancock and Van der Poel, Selections, 400–402; Leyds, Vierde verzameling II, 86–87, 89–92; Pakenham, Boer War, 520–521; De Wet, Strijd, 304–309.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 236; Hobhouse, Brunt, 114–125; Emily Hobhouse, Report of a Visit to the Camps of Women and Children in the Cape and Orange River Colonies (London, 1901), 5–12; Pakenham, Boer War, 506–507; Van Reenen, Emily Hobhouse, 123.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 240; Pakenham, Boer War, 501–503; Van Reenen, Emily Hobhouse, 115–116, 121.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 242, 244; Hobhouse, Report, 14–15; Pakenham, Boer War, 503–504, 508; Van Reenen, Emily Hobhouse, 121–123, 125–126; W.T. Stead, Methods of Barbarism: ‘War is War’ and ‘War is Hell?’ The Case for Intervention (London, 1901).

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 244–245; Hobhouse, Brunt, 126–137; Hobhouse, Report, 13–14; Pakenham, Boer War, 504–510; Van Reenen, Emily Hobhouse, 115–116, 121.

  Reitz, Kommando, 170–196.

  See above, p. 271.

  Reitz, Kommando, 197–200.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 242, 246–247, 252; Pakenham, Boer War, 513; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 432–433.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 256–258; Grobler, War Reporter, 121; Pakenham, Boer War, 499, 522, 529, 535–538; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 27–28, 46–47; Spies, Methods, 233–239.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 245–246; Leyds, Vierde verzameling I, xxxviii–xxxix, 363–365; II, 125–128, 184–189.

  Leyds, Vierde verzameling I, xl, 304; II, 114–124.

  Hobhouse, Brunt, 145–140; Hobhouse Balme, To Love, 277–328.

  Leyds, Vierde verzameling I, xxiv–xxvi, 122–123, 152, 154–158, 164–165, 265–265, 179–280, 342, 356–359, 459–460.

  Hobhouse, Brunt, 319–346; Ploeger, Lotgevalle, chs. 41 and 42; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 104–106, 145–146, 184–185; Spies, Methods, 221–227, 252–269.

  Churchill, My Early Life, 367–370; Rhodes James, Churchill: His Complete Speeches I, 70–86.

  Rhodes James, Churchill: His Complete Speeches I, 87–90.

  Rhodes James, Churchill: His Complete Speeches I, 95–109.

  Calitz, Deneys Reitz, 108–109; Hancock and Van der Poel, Smuts Papers I, 430–431; Reitz, Kommando, 200–201.

  See above, p. 190.

  See above, p. 164; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 210–211; Warwick, Black People, 45–46.

  See above, p. 27.

  Nasson, Abraham Esau’s War, 19–21; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 29–31, 42–44, 210–211, 317–318, 443–444; Warwick, Black People, 63–74, 87–90, 96–109, 119–122.

  See above, p. 336–337.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 247, 255–256; Warwick, Black People, 19–25.

  See above, p. 62.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 254–256; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 421, 444; Warwick, Black People, 100–101, 107.

  See above, pp. 297–298.

  Pakenham, Boer War, 528–532.

  See above, p. 354.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 344; Ploeger, Lotgevalle, ch. 43; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 102–106; Warwick, Black People, 145–157.

  Calitz, Deneys Reitz, 109–116; Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 266; Hancock and Van der Poel, Smuts Papers I, 410–412, 422–427; Reitz, Kommando, 205–236.

  Calitz, Deneys Reitz, 115–116; Hancock and Van der Poel, Smuts Papers I, 412–413; Reitz, Kommando, 236–244.

  See above, pp. 286–287.

  Leyds, Vierde verzameling I, xxxiv–xxxvi, 378–379, 392–393, 450–451; II, 135–141; http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/hague02.asp.

  Calitz, Deneys Reitz, 116–117; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 464–465; Reitz, Kommando, 246–255.

  Calitz, Deneys Reitz, 116–119; Hancock and Van der Poel, Smuts Papers I, 419–428; Reitz, Commando, 250, 264–265; Reitz, Kommando, 255–274.

  See above, p. 112.

  See above, pp. 315–316.

  Leyds, Vierde verzameling I, xxxvi, xl–xl, xlv–xlvi, 448–450, 462-465; II, 153–155, 158, 161–162; Wilson, International Impact, 110–112.

  See above, pp. 360–361.

  Hancock and Van der Poel, Smuts Papers I, 437–505.

  Calitz, Deneys Reitz, 120–123; Reitz, Kommando, 227–293.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 296; Hancock and Van der Poel, Smuts Papers I, 513; Nasson, Abraham Esau’s War, 108–114; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 240–241, 265–266; Reitz, Kommando, 288–290; Warwick, Black People, 122.

  Blake, Boereverraaier, 230–238; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 95; Reitz, Kommando, 288–290; see above, pp. 294–295.

  See above, p. 315–316; Blake Boereverraaier, 30–44, 84–115, 158–175.

  Blake, Boereverraaier, 45–62, 202–204; Grundlingh, ‘Hendsoppers’, 198–230; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 200–202.

  Blake, Boereverraaier, 68–72, 284–285; Hancock and Van der Poel, Smuts Papers I, 446.

  Blake, Boereverraaier, 64–67.

  See above, p. 325.

  Churchill, My Early Life, 368; Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 294–295, 310, 317; Grobler, War Reporter, 133; Leyds, Vierde verzameling I, 603–604; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 224–225, 249, 404–406.

  See above pp. 183–185, 238, 272, 284–286.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 304–305; Grobler, War Reporter, 137; Pakenham, Boer War, 549, 556; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 503–504.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 308–311; Grobler, War Reporter, 139; Pakenham, Boer War, 549, 556; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 280–281, 461–462.

  Calitz, Deneys Reitz, 124–130; Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 316–317; Reitz, Commando, 298–313; Reitz, Kommando, 294–309.

  Reitz, Kommando, 310–314.

  Kestell and Van Velden, Vredesonderhandelinge, 15–20; Leyds, Vierde verzameling II, 177–183.

  See above, p. 375; Leyds, Vierde verzameling I, xlvii–l.

  Leyds, Vierde verzameling I, 155–157.

  Leyds, Vierde verzameling I, 672.

  See above, p. 340.

  See above, pp. 332–334.

  Arthur, Life of Lord Kitchener II, 86–94; Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 321–324; Kestell and Van Velden, Vredesonderhandelinge, 15–20; Pakenham, Boer War, 551–554.

  See above, p. 293.

  Calitz, Deneys Reitz, 131–134; Reitz, Kommando, 314–318.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 326–328; Kestell and Van Velden, Vredesonderhandelinge, 51–91.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 328; Kestell and Van Velden, Vredesonderhandelinge¸ 90–116; see above, pp. 332–334.

  Pakenham, Boer War, 561.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War, 329–332; Kestell and Van Velden, Vredesonderhandelinge, 116–175; Pakenham, Boer War, 564–570.

  Epilogue

  www.bloemfontein.co.za/renaming-big.jpg.

  dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012–0329-south-africa-the-returnof-the-namechanging-cliffhanger.

  www.afriforum.co.za/t-hemde-tee-naamsveranderinge.

  See above, pp. 22–24, 60–62. Cf. also the recent commotion surrounding the historically inspired so-called ‘white’ and ‘black’ songs, the most striking examples being, on the one hand, the popular Afrikaans song ‘De la Rey’ by Bok van Blerk and, on the other hand, the struggle song ‘Awudubhule ibhunu’ (Shoot the Boer), revived by the ANC Youth League. Albert Grundlingh, ‘Die historiese in die hede. Dinamika van die De la Rey-fenomeen in Afrikanerkringe, 2006–2007’, New Contree 53 (2007), 135–154.

  www.info.gov.za/speech/DynamicAction?pageid=461andsid=27620andtid=69127; www.info.gov.za/speech/DynamicAction?pageid=461andsid=28766andtid=74709.

  Lake and Reynolds, Drawing; Nasson, War; Warwick, Black People, passim.

  Leyds, Vierde verzameling I, xlix–li, 756–757; Bossenbroek, ‘Geschiedschrijving’, 209–210; Van Niekerk, Kruger se regterhan
d, 356.

  Pakenham, Boer War, 561–562.

  Jenkins, Churchill, passim; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, 80, 107–108, 374–376; Deneys Reitz, Trekking On (London, 1933), 122–123, 149–150.

  Cloete, Anglo-Boer War; Nasson, War; Pakenham, Boer War; Pretorius, Historical Dictionary, passim.

  Calitz, Deneys Reitz, 135–137; Reitz, Kommando, 319–321.

  Deneys Reitz, No Outspan (London, 1943), passim.

  See above, pp. 404–406; Marc Howard Ross, Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict (Cambridge, 2007), 240–250; www.info.gov.za/ speech/DynamicAction?pageid=461andid=25951andtid=60804; www.freedompark.co.za/cms/index.php?option=com_contentandvie=articleandid=29 andItemid=35andphpMyAdmin=17b79oef73ob81dao 9aI3c43cI2692b2.

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