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The rebellion was put down by Louis Botha and Jan Smuts, and the ringleaders received heavy fines and terms of imprisonment.
" Still, though all Canadian nationals were as equally British subjects as their British counterparts prior to the implementation of the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1947, the idea of Canadian-born persons being appointed governor general was raised as early as 1919, when, at the Paris Peace Conference, Canadian prime minister Robert Borden consulted with Prime Minister of South Africa Louis Botha and the two agreed that the viceregal appointees should be long-term residents of their respective dominions.
However, the nadir of Black Week was the Battle of Colenso on 15 December where 21, 000 British troops commanded by Buller himself, attempted to cross the Tugela River to relieve Ladysmith where 8, 000 Transvaal Boers, under the command of Louis Botha, were awaiting them.
Buller attacked Louis Botha again on 5 February at Vaal Krantz and was again defeated.
Although Roberts drove the Boers from the hill, the Boer commander, Louis Botha, did not regard it as a defeat, for he inflicted more casualties on the British ( totalling 162 men ) while suffering around 50 casualties.
Louis Botha, formerly a Boer general, was appointed first Prime Minister of the Union, heading a coalition representing the white Afrikaner and English-speaking communities.
On 11 April 1901, Louis Botha corresponded with Kitchener, complaining that British officers were inducing the Swazis to fight against the Boers.
Botha had fully recuperated by 1 April 1989 when implementation of UNSCR 435 officially started and the South African appointed Administrator-General, Louis Pienaar, began the territory's transition to independence.
( Louis Botha, the Boer leader with whom Kitchener had negotiated his aborted peace treaty in 1901, became the first Prime Minister of the self-governing Union of South Africa in 1910.
The first South African Prime Minister, General Louis Botha, believed that " Campbell-Bannerman's act giving self-government back to the Boers had redressed the balance of the Anglo-Boer War, or had, at any rate, given full power to the South Africans themselves to redress it ".
The most notable usage of the Red Ensign as a national flag was when General Louis Botha flew the flag over Windhoek in what was then German South West Africa after the town's occupation by South African troops in 1915.
Louis Botha was elected leader, and Smuts his deputy.
Next he and Louis Botha led the South African army into German South West Africa and conquered it ( see the South-West Africa Campaign for details ).
In early 1901, the column operated alongside others under the command of French in the Eastern Transvaal in operations against Louis Botha.
Durban International Airport ( formerly Louis Botha Airport ) was the international airport of Durban from 1951 until 2010, when it was replaced by King Shaka International Airport, to the north.
The original name of the airport was Louis Botha International, named after the South African statesman.
After the war, there was a general reconciliation between Afrikaners and Britain, culminating in the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, under the leadership of former Boer fighters such as Louis Botha and Jan Smuts ( who was of Cape Dutch origin fighting on the side of the Boers ).
The Boers were promised and granted land for their services & were led by Louis Botha who would go on to prominence during the second Anglo-Boer War.
Its founding was rooted in disagreements among South African Party politicians, particularly Prime Minister Louis Botha and his first Minister of Justice, J. B. M.
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* 1910 Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
He led two embassies to the Mongols: the first carried letters from Pope Innocent IV and the second bore gifts and letters from Louis IX of France to Güyük Khan.
Andrew's first mission to the East was when he was asked by the French king Louis IX to go and fetch the Crown of Thorns which had been sold to him by the Latin Emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II in 1238, who was anxious to obtain support for his tottering empire.
Antibiosis was first described in 1877 in bacteria when Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch observed that an airborne bacillus could inhibit the growth of Bacillus anthracis.
* 1862 Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.
In 1831, Pike left Massachusetts to travel west, first stopping in St. Louis and later moving on to Independence, Missouri.
The first significant reference to the influence of Aelian in the 16th century is a letter to Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange from his cousin William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg on December 8, 1594.
Toward the latter half of the 17th century, Louis XIV founded his ' Académie Royale de Musique et de Danse ', where specific rules for the execution of every dance and the " five positions " of the feet were formulated for the first time by members of the Académie.
Villeroi, posting himself near Offus, watched anxiously the redcoats ' advance, mindful of the counsel he had received on 6 May from Louis XIV " Have particular care to that part of the line which will endure the first shock of the English troops.
One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Milwaukee Brewers before moving to St. Louis to become the St. Louis Browns.
The great innovations in dance in the 17th century originated at the French court under Louis XIV, and it is here that we see the first clear stylistic ancestor of classical ballet.
The game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals in particular was cited for putting Ryne Sandberg ( as well as the 1984 Cubs in general, who would go on to make their first postseason appearance since 1945 ) " on the map.
Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 1813 ).
A Dog's Life was described by Louis Delluc as " cinema's first total work of art.
* The 20th-century Irish poet Louis MacNeice references Catullus in his poem " Epitaph for Liberal Poets ," where he mentions Catullus as amongst the first liberal poets-" Catullus / went down young ," mentioning him in the context of the death of the individual and recognising his and the universal plight.
The French mathematician Augustin Louis Cauchy was the first to formulate such models in the 19th century, but research in the area continues today.
Gauss's personal life was overshadowed by the early death of his first wife, Johanna Osthoff, in 1809, soon followed by the death of one child, Louis.
The team was unable to make another serious charge, and finished at 88 74, five games behind both Houston and St. Louis, who tied for first.
Chicago halted St. Louis ' run to the playoffs by taking 4 of 5 games from the Cardinals at Wrigley Field in early September, after which the hapless Cubs finally won their first division title in 14 years.
Despite this, Chicago engaged St. Louis in a see-saw battle for first place into August, but the Cardinals played to a torrid 20 6 pace that month, designating their rivals to battle in the Wild Card race, from which they were eliminated in the season's final week.
Apparently unaware of Smeaton's work, the same principle was identified by Louis Vicat in the first decade of the nineteenth century.
He published numerous articles in publications such as Collier's Weekly and Harper's Weekly, and he chose the first College Football All-America Team. 1906 St. Louis Post-Dispatch photograph of Bradbury Robinson | Brad Robinson, who threw the first legal forward pass

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