A leader from the latter phase of this conflict was Jacobus Hercules De la Rey, who would eventually be shot dead by police.
A leader from the latter phase of this conflict was Jacobus Hercules De la Rey, who would eventually be shot dead by police. One side in this war achieved victory at Spion Kop by compelling the other side to try raising the siege of Ladysmith. Frederick Sleigh Roberts was eventually successful in relieving Maefiking and Kimberly, and Horatio Kitchener introduced the "scorched earth" policy and the concentration camp in this war, whose belligerents included a republic led by Paul Kruger. FTP, name this 1899 to 1902 war ended by the Peace of Vereeniging, which was fought between Great Britain and the Afrikaner states of South Africa.
A leader from the latter phase of this conflict was Jacobus Hercules De la Rey, who would eventually be shot dead by police.
the Second Anglo-Boer War [prompt on South African War]