Wednesday, May 15, 2013
In
December 1900 Lord Roberts, in Durban and on his way back to England, told a
gathering that the war was practically over. President Kruger, after living
some weeks as a fugitive in a railway carriage, had left for Europe aboard a Dutch
warship. However, Louis Botha, Koos de la Rey and Christiaan de Wet were still
at large with bands of guerilla fighters. Roberts had given orders that Boer
farms were to be burnt as a way of denying them food. The war was practically
over – the war of set-piece battles. But a new war, just as costly in time and
human lives, and far more bitter, had only just begun.
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