Critique: An impressively researched, exceptionally well written, meticulously documented and detailed account, "
Louis Botha's War: The Campaign in South West Africa, 1914-1915" by travel writer, conservation correspondent, and now historian Adam Cruise is an inherently fascinating and informative read which is strongly recommended for community and academic library 20th Century History collections in general, and Boer War supplemental studies reading lists in particular.
"Those three men were; General
Louis Botha, who went on to become the first prime minister of unionised South Africa, and then sent allied South African troops to fight against Germany in World War I.
Beyers, Louis Botha and Jan Smuts-formed the inner core of leadership for Het Volk.
Louis Botha and Jan Smuts said as much and publicly censured Beyers for his "loose talk".
(18.) See the verbatim testimony of General Louis Botha at Pretoria on 2 May 1902 in the appendix of Christiaan De Wet, Three Years War, 355-357; see also British Parliamentary Papers (henceforth: BPP) LXIX Cd 820 (1901), "From Lord Kithchener to the Under Secretary of State for War, War Office, London S.W.," Pretoria, 8th August 1901.
(34.) See the verbatim testimony of General Louis Botha on the impact of the British blockhouses at the gathering of the republican General Staff or War Council at Pretoria in May 1902: De Wet, Three Years War, 355.
Artist Beezy Baily dressed up the statue of
Louis Botha, a turn-of-the-century Boer general and prime minister, for an arts festival to celebrate the new South Africa, which shed apartheid in 1994.
While the reader may not be delighted to learn that Krikler rejects EP Thompson's definition of class consciousness, he will take delight in some of the details of what happened, of how blacks contributed to the British war effort and then tried to prevent the distinguished Boer general,
Louis Botha, from regaining possession of his farm.
Its first prime minister was
Louis Botha (1862-1919), who had fought for the Boers during the Boer War.
1912 -
Louis Botha resigns as South Africa's premier.
High among them was Sir Abraham Bailey, friend to Cecil Rhodes, connected by marriage to Winston Churchill and able to call on the likes of Field Marshal Lord Haig and
Louis Botha as godparents to his son, Derrick.
Attempts to make peace failed in 1901, but the Boer position was growing desperate and in April 1902, under safe conduct from Kitchener, six Boer leaders conferred at Klerksdorp in Transvaal -- President Schalk Burger,
Louis Botha and de la Rey from Transvaal and President M.T.