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.

However, the Boers had earlier met at the temporary new capital of the Orange Free State, Kroonstad, and planned a guerrilla campaign to hit the British supply and communication lines.

However instead of capitulating, the Boers fought a protracted guerrilla war.

However the Boers made effective use of trench warfare, field artillery and long range rifles from the beginning of the war.

However, in 1877 Britain annexed the ZAR as a convenient way of resolving the border dispute between the Boers and the Zulus.

However, in 1842, war broke out between the British and the Boers, resulting in the British annexation of Natalia.

However, Sir Henry Bartle Frere, then high commissioner and still pressing forward with Carnarvon's federation plan, characterized the award as " one-sided and unfair to the Boers ," stipulated that on the land being given to the Zulu, the Boers living on it should be compensated if they left or protected if they remained.

However, a larger number of Irish ( whose sympathies led to them being labelled West British ) fought for the British against the Boers.

However the Unionist politician Lord Milner opposed it, saying in August 1907: " People here – not only Liberals – seem delighted, and to think themselves wonderfully fine fellows for having given South Africa back to the Boers.

However, the Day of the Vow is still celebrated by Boers today.

However the Liberals lost the 1895 general election and Salisbury once again became Prime Minister, leading Britain to war against the Boers and the Unionists to another electoral victory in 1900 before relinquishing the premiership to his nephew Arthur Balfour.

However, when Trenchard and his patrol reached the valley floor and broke cover, the Boers opened fire from about a dozen points and bullets whistled past Trenchard and his men.

However, British colonial expansion was, from the 1830s, marked by skirmishes and wars against both Boers and native African tribes for most of the remainder of the century.

However, a few dozen Boers soon appeared, counter-attacking the Manchesters and Gordon Highlanders.

However, the Boers quickly formed a group of storming parties, led by Nicolas Smit, from an assortment of volunteers from various commandos, totaling at least 450 men, maybe more, to attack the hill.

However Ajax apparently backed down on that agreement after floating the club on the stock market and pledging to shareholders that it would hold both of the De Boers and build around them a team to recapture the UEFA Champions League.

However their march was easily visible to the Boers, and so slow ( due in part to the massive baggage trains necessary to British officers at the time-Warren's included a cast iron bathroom and well-equipped kitchen ) that by the time they arrived at the Tugela, the Boers had entrenched a new position covering it.

However, the Boers did not reclaim their positions.

However, these negotiations came to nothing, since the Bidwills insisted on retaining a controlling interest in the franchise and were unwilling move their team to a city where a previous NFL franchise had failed in 1952.

However, Innocent insisted on Bernard's company when he met with Lothair III of Germany.

However, the Italian government insisted that General Baratieri act.

" However, Catherine insisted that she and Arthur had never consummated their brief marriage and that the prohibition did not apply here.

However, Maloney insisted on repeatedly " shaking off " his younger catcher and throwing the fastball instead of the breaking balls Bench called for.

However, he was skeptical about Freudianism, especially after a struggle with an editor who insisted on reading Freudian sexual symbolism into his juvenile novels.

However, Saladin insisted on the razing of Ascalon's fortifications, which Richard's men had rebuilt, and a few other points.

However, Jane Stanford insisted that the university remain in operation.

However, the Soviets insisted the border be drawn at the Lusatian Neisse farther west.

However, the changes IBM had insisted on were a liability where the III Plus user base was concerned.

However, Gagarin insisted that the car hood remain back so that the cheering crowds could catch a glimpse of him.

However, Gerry Adams insisted that the Belfast Agreement provided a mechanism to deliver a united Ireland by non-violent and constitutional means, much as Michael Collins had said of the Anglo-Irish Treaty nearly 80 years earlier.

However, the Council Fathers insisted, with the support of the Pope, that, as Mary's place is within the Church, treatment of her should appear within the Constitution on the Church.

However, the Australian Prime Minister at the time, Gough Whitlam, insisted that the second pronunciation was the correct one because of the Greek origins of the two parts of the word.

However, to indicate this must be done hesitantly, parliament insisted on a slightly different terminology: instead of krachtens de wet the phrase uit kracht van wet was used ; both mean " by force of law " or " pursuant to law "; but the second expression puts somewhat more emphasis on the force of the law and thus on the fact all delegation is ultimately derived from law.

" However, Churchill insisted on coming back for the French, so the Royal Navy returned on 4 June in an attempt to rescue as many as possible of the French rearguard.

However, in 1711, when traveling from the front in Flanders to The Hague in connection with the law suit about the Principality of Orange, in his haste he insisted in crossing the Hollands Diep during a heavy storm.

However, the Lord insisted that Jeremiah go and speak as commanded, and he touched Jeremiah ’ s mouth and put the word of the Lord into Jeremiah ’ s mouth.

However, on the following day, Epaminondas caused a drastic break with Sparta when he insisted on signing not for the Thebans alone, but for all the Boeotians.

However, he insisted Demetrius would become king, knowing that Rome would never tolerate a unified Hellenistic state, and the year after Ptolemy VI was killed when Alexander Balas made a last desperate attempt to regain his throne.

However, despite the designed open-endedness of Fluxus, Maciunas insisted on maintaining unity in the collective.

However, Shinji Sogo, President of Japan National Railways, insisted strongly on the possibility of high-speed rail, and the Shinkansen project was implemented.

However, the head of the commission, General Chagin, insisted on subsequent trials held under the Commission's supervision during which Mosin's rifle showed its advantages, leading to its selection over the Nagant.

However, according to Norman, " In Another Land, was executorially censored by the " mother company " which insisted on removing any music they felt was " too negative " or " too controversial.