Although it did not join its northern neighbor in resisting Sir George Pomeroy Colley, twenty years later its guerillas, including C. R. De Wet, fought on after British forces occupied its capital, Bloemfontein.
Though it proposed annexation of the Caledon Valley as early as the 1850s, only the treaty of Thaba Bosiu confirmed victory over its neighbor Moshoeshoe (mo-shwe-shwe). These wars had forced the British government to renounce sovereignty over it, despite Harry Smith's victory at the battle of Boomplats. Although it did not join its northern neighbor in resisting Sir George Pomeroy Colley, twenty years later its guerillas, including C. R. De Wet, fought on after British forces occupied its capital, Bloemfontein. FTP, name this polity that lost its namesake quality at the Peace of Vereeniging, the smaller of nineteenth-century South Africa's two Boer republics.
Though it proposed annexation of the Caledon Valley as early as the 1850s, only the treaty of Thaba Bosiu confirmed victory over its neighbor Moshoeshoe (mo-shwe-shwe).
Orange Free State