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* Koos de la Rey, general and regarded as being one of the great military leaders of the Second Anglo-Boer War.
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The Boer commanders, Koos de la Rey and Piet Cronje, had ordered trenches to be dug in an unconventional place to fool the British and to give their riflemen a greater firing range.
In the second phase of the war, Smuts served under Koos de la Rey, who commanded 500 commandos in the Western Transvaal.
In 2007 an Afrikaans song about Boer War general Koos de la Rey by Bok van Blerk became a hit amid fierce debate on whether it represented a call to arms for the reinstatement of Afrikaner rule or just expressed cultural nostalgia.
General Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey ( 22 October 1847 – 15 September 1914 ), known as Koos de la Rey, was a Boer general during the Second Boer War and is widely regarded as being one of the strongest military leaders during that conflict.
In 1972, only Koos and Rudi remained in the group, and the rest of the band comprised this: Getty Kaspers ( vocals, in 1976 solo as Getty ), John Gaasbeek ( bass, already in 1964 in the Stora Combo ( later known as Orkest Freddie Golden ), left in 1976 also ), Chris de Wolde ( guitar ) and Ard Weeink ( also until 1976 ).
Teach-In were Getty Kaspers, Chris de Wolde, Ard Weenink, Koos Versteeg, John Gaasbeek and Ruud Nijhuis.
The most famous of the battles around Klerksdorp, is that of the Battle of Ysterspruit ( Iron Stream ), in which the Boer General, Koos de la Rey, achieved a great victory.
With the guerrillas requiring supplies, Koos de la Rey lead a force of 3, 000 Boers against Brakfontein, on the Elands River in Western Transvaal.
The famous Boer General Koos de la Rey was born in the district of Winburg on the farm Doornfontein.
A nominated senator, General Koos de la Rey, who had refused to support the government in parliament over this issue, visited Beyers.
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His prophesies about the Boer War, the 1914-1915 rebellion, the death of General Koos de la Rey and other events brought him to prominence among the Boere and South Africans in general.
* 15 September-General Koos de la Rey, a Boer general during the Boer War, was shot dead after his driver failed to stop at a police roadblock.
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However the tactics ascribed to him were not his own ; he was convinced by General Koos De La Rey and President M. T.
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The rebellion received a fatal blow even before it started, when the influential general Koos de la Rey was accidentally killed on September 15, 1914.
He is believed by some to have made many accurate predictions of local events, including foretelling the death of general Koos de la Rey and the political transition of South Africa after his own death.
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The first local council was installed on 2 January 1984 in the presence of the then minister of the Interior Koos Rietkerk.
In 1979 the South African Music scene changed from the Tranetrekkers to more lively sounds and the introduction of new names in the market with the likes of Anton Goosen, David Kramer, Koos du Plessis and Laurika Rauch.
Spearheaded by the singer-songwriter Johannes Kerkorrel and his Gereformeerde Blues Band, the movement ( which was named after Kerkorrel's 1989 regional tour ) also included musicians Bernoldus Niemand ( aka James Phillips ) and Koos Kombuis.
The 4 song ( " Big Cat Stomp / What You Lack In Brains / Bury You Alive / Blues Theme ") EP was released in May 2010. A UK tour had to be canceled due to a volcanic eruption in Iceland, but they toured the US extensively through December 2010 with Warner on drums and another former Blackheart, Sean Koos, on bass.
Koos is the largest of several small islands in the Bay of Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
In 1241, Barnuta, prince of Rügen, granted Koos ( then " Chosten ") to Eldena abbey ( then " Hilda "), later it became a possession of the Hanseatic town of Greifswald, located a few kilometers southward.
Amongst the islands in the east of the bodden are Vilm, Koos, Riems and the former island of Stubber, now a sandbank.
The Koos had two children: a son, Teh-chang Koo ( 1916 – 1998 ), and a daughter, Patricia Koo ( b. 1918 ).
He died on 2 October 1982, leaving behind his wife and two sons, Jacobus Johannes (' Jimmy ') Fouché and Jacobus Adriaan Louw (' Koos ') Fouché.
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