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Boje's sensitive analysis showcases the motives, actions, and reactions of Boers and Africans alike as initial British accommodation gave way to ruthlessness. Challenging notions of Boer unity and homogeneity, Boje illustrates the precarious tightrope of resistance, neutrality, and collaboration walked by people on all sides. He also reveals how the repercussions of the war's transformative effect on Afrikaner identity plays out in today's South Africa. Readable and compassionate, An Imperfect Occupation provides a dramatic account of the often overlooked aspects of one of the first "modern" wars.
Read more Read less. Kindle Cloud Reader Read instantly in your browser. Register a free business account. Review "A superb and original contribution to our knowledge of the South African War. The author has chosen a regional study to penetrate beyond the mythology of past historiography to expose the real and individual experiences of ordinary men and women from the Winburg district of the Orange Free State. It is an honest, thoroughly researched study of a community torn by war, civil war, and racism. Apart from Boers fighting for their republic's independence and Boer women caught up in the conflict, it was a base for Boers collaborating with the British and a base for an armed black corps in British military service.
This adds fascinating dimensions to the topic. It serves as a model of its kind and adds significantly to the existing historiography. Miller, University of Maine. His four grandparents lived in the Winburg district and their varied experiences of the war were typical of those recorded here. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Minter Exchange Dedicated to Minter families everywhere. Thomas Leonard Wyatt Minter. Yes, date unknown. Half of the page on which this marriage is recorded has been torn off but sufficient survives to see the names, ages and signatures of both parties.
Erica Minter has sent me a copy of the marriage certificate. It shows that when they married John was 21, a bachelor, and Anna was 19, a spinster. Family 1. Simultaneously with the charge of the Dorsets, the 2nd Brigade was doing identical work, and doing it splendidly. Thus in two marches Sir Redvers Buller had succeeded in effectively sweeping Northern Natal, a feat of which his army was very justly proud. There was no doubt that the Chief had now made himself master both of the tactics of the enemy and the peculiarities of the country over which he had to travel.
He had bought his experience in a hard school, but in this march he applied it brilliantly, and exacted from all the applause that was his due.
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Through broken country and steep he had made a flank march of fifty miles with an immense force and tremendous transport, clearing the way before him with the loss of about 30 killed and wounded. His strategy had been ingenious as masterly, for while he made a demonstration on their left and kept the Boers in expectation of attack in that quarter, he had wheeled his force to their right, and surprised them before they had time to gather [Pg 31] themselves together sufficiently to frustrate the tactics of the advancing force.
The triumphant issue of the movement was a source of intense satisfaction to all concerned in it. Grant-Dalton, 2nd West Yorkshire Regiment, was wounded.
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The next stage in the proceedings was begun on the 20th, when Sir Redvers Buller moved to Paarde Kop, and from thence proceeded to Standerton, when he opened up communications with Lord Roberts. Doubtless the inability of the General to proceed, had considerable effect upon the main war programme, and many imagine that if the force had been able to occupy Standerton, which lies directly between Machadodorp, where President Kruger had fled, and Reitz, where President Steyn had located himself, concerted action between the two Presidents might have been nipped in the bud.
Meanwhile, General Hildyard occupied Wakkerstroom, but marched thence to join General Buller on the 19th. The Natal Volunteers were now about to be disbanded, and left for Dundee. They were highly praised by all, and the Chief issued an order expressing his keen appreciation of the services rendered by Brigadier-General [Pg 33] Dartnell and his stalwart followers in the arduous task which has resulted in the expulsion of the enemy from Natal territory.
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The next day, the 21st, the advance column reached Paardekop, situated some thirty miles from their destination. As Major Gough and a squadron of the Composite Regiment entered Standerton a party of Boers made off, leaving the place to be occupied without resistance. The railway bridge was found to be injured, as also were some engine trucks and engines.
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The Hollander railway officials, for whose idle hands the devil had invented this mischief, were imprisoned. Both armies thus approaching were now capable of frustrating concerted and combined action between the hostile bands of the Transvaal and those still lingering in Orange River Colony.
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Four Boer victims were left on the scene of the fray. The Boers, though many were surrendering, were sustained in their dogged determination to fight by the exquisite inventiveness of Mr. Kruger, who, undoubtedly, is a Defoe or a De Rougemont lost to the world. He caused a proclamation to be issued, stating that the Russians had declared war on Japan, and that Great Britain was bound by treaty to support the Japanese, and must therefore withdraw her troops from South Africa.
The proclamation also stated that Lord Roberts had no supplies, and implored the burghers to keep up their courage. About a thousand burghers accordingly collected in the neighbourhood of Sandspruit with the wily ambition of severing the lines of communication. The Komati Poort Bridge had been threatened, and the cauldron of Boer machination was simmering portentously in the neighbourhood of Machadodorp. Still the wily one—slim by instinct, slimmer now by experience—contrived to become slippery as an eel whenever the fingers of the enveloping British hand began to curve in his direction.
He was aware of his own potentialities, and is reported to have said that he gave Lord Kitchener—if he put his mind to it—ten days to catch him in, while to Lord Roberts he allowed three weeks, and to Lord Methuen the rest of a lifetime! And the statement was not all Boer bounce, as time proved. General Hamilton from the west approached Heidelberg on the 22nd, and exchanged shots with the Boer patrols; but during the night the enemy disappeared and the troops occupied the town.
It was found that the Boers had retreated to a crescent of hills turning south-east of the town, and from here they fired on patrols of the New South Wales Contingent. The casualties were few. Among the wounded were Captain F. General Ian Hamilton unluckily fell from his horse and sustained a fracture of the collar-bone. How General Hunter managed so opportunely to arrive on the scene must be described. With Colonel Mahon—who had joined him and was in command of the Cavalry Brigade—he had been engaged in the task of pacifying the Wolmaranstad and Potchefstroom districts.
Klerksdorp surrendered on the 9th of June uselessly, as it afterwards appeared. General Hart before this time had been at Frederickstad, some fifteen miles north of Potchefstroom on the rail and best road to Johannesburg, but speedily moved on to assist.
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The plan was to arrange for the permanent garrisoning of Frankfort in the Orange River Colony, Heilbron, Lindley, and Senekal, the taking of Bethlehem, and, if possible, the cornering of De Wet. General Hunter marched from Heidelberg towards Frankfort with a view to finding out the haunts of the malcontents, but encountered [Pg 36] no opposition, and reached his destination on the 1st of July. Two days later he was joined by the troops from Heilbron under General Macdonald.
General Hart, with a battalion and a half of infantry, remained in Heidelberg and engaged in the repair of the railway bridge, which had been wrecked by the Boers. Here for the nonce we must leave them while the operations in other parts of the disturbed Colonies are investigated. The commando of the astute Free Stater was to be pushed eastward towards Bethlehem and surrounded, and for this purpose General Hunter was to co-operate with Generals Rundle, Clements, and Paget, while Lord Methuen in the neighbourhood of Paardekraal ten miles south-west of Heilbron on the Kroonstad Road , was to mount guard over the rail between Kroonstad and the Vaal River and prevent De Wet from breaking out westward.
In June he was vigilantly guarding the Senekal-Ficksburg region, posting strong forces at intervals along the road, and fixing his headquarters at Scheepers Nek. In a day or two he returned to Hammonia, however, as swarms of the enemy were circling about sniping, forcing Boers who had retired to their farms to rejoin the rebels, destroying telegraph wires, attempting to cut off parties of troops and to press their way towards the south, and, in fact, making themselves generally offensive.
But Mr. Steyn issued a counterblast—warned burghers to take no notice of the proclamation at their peril, and declared the country was still an International Sovereign State, with a President and properly constituted Government. De Wet was reported to be still keeping together some men in the Orange River Colony, Botha with some more, broken into marauding bands, was guarding the east of the Transvaal, while Mr. Kruger and his allies between Machadodorp and Nelspruit resided in a railway carriage, awaiting the whistle that should warn them to steam off.
The desperadoes had guns, and without doubt intended to use them should the British be caught in the open, but they were playing a waiting [Pg 38] game, at which pastime General Rundle decided to show himself equally proficient. Further investigations proved that the Boer lines between Ficksburg and Bethlehem were of great strength, and that the Dutchmen numbered some Besides these bands, other roving commandos flitted about mosquito-wise, seeking to draw British blood. On the 20th Colonel Dalgety at Hibernia reported that he had been surrounded. He stated that some Dutchmen were ensconced on Doorn Kop near his camp, and asked for help in order to effect their capture.
When the troops arrived, however, it was found that Colonel Dalgety had retired, and the Boers in dispersed gangs were again a prowling danger to the vicinity.
Meanwhile General Paget, who was holding Lindley, was attacked by De Wet, who brought five pieces to bear on him, but the guerilla chief was successfully repulsed by the 2nd Yorkshire Light Infantry, assisted later on by a battery of the City Imperial Volunteers which gave a splendid account of itself. Under cover of a fiercely-flaring veldt fire they poured a volley on the rear guard—the Scots Guards and Hampshire Yeomanry under Captain Seely—who instantly jumped to action, giving the oncoming Boers so keen a dose from rifles and a Maxim, that they bolted to their main position at Tafelberg.
Sundry of their party, seeking safety at the farm of some supposed neutral, were luckily captured and their harbour of refuge razed to the ground. It was impossible longer to shut our eyes to the fact that the farms had become half-way houses for rebels, and there was no other means of disposing of these death traps.
In this engagement many of the Boers bit the dust, for the British troops actively pursued the enemy in their flight, and succeeded in thinning their numbers without casualties on their own side. The dogged determination of the Boers was to break through to the south, and it took all the ingenuity of Generals Rundle and Brabant to create a linked chain from Winburg to the Basutoland border, through which the slim ones could not squeeze. Owing to the nature of the country—in some places a replica of Switzerland, with snow-capped peaks, enormous gorges, and treacherous passes—it was difficult to assume the offensive, and Sir Leslie Rundle had to content himself with the task of keeping the Boers in check while help came from the north.
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General Clements, on the [Pg 39] 24th, engaged a body of fierce ruffians near Winburg, where he had gone to gather guns and supplies prior to combining his force with those at Lindley, Heilbron, and Heidelberg. He succeeded in driving the rebels north of the Zand River without great loss, though Captain G. Lascelles, 8th Battery Royal Field Artillery, was slightly injured. At Bloemfontein, at this time, there was deep regret at the loss of Captain Lord Kensington, [7] 2nd Life Guards, who had died of his wounds. Two valuable officers were killed—Captain E.
Grogan and Lieutenant G. Brancker, 1st South Staffordshire Regiment—and five men were wounded and missing. A convoy returning with General Clements to Senekal from Winburg was also attacked some seven miles from Senekal. Of the combined forces three men were killed and twenty-three wounded. General Paget was also desperately engaged at Lindley on the 26th, when a convoy of stores moving towards that place was attacked by the marauding bands, but after a heavy rearguard action succeeded in getting to their destination in safety.