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On the Boer side, the government was led by state president Martinus Theunis Steyn ( 1857 – 1916 ) until 30 May 1902, when he went on sick-leave and was replaced by general Christiaan de Wet as acting state president.
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On and Boer
On 16 October 1836, a Boer laager ( or fortified circle of wagons ) led by Andries Hendrik Potgieter, was attacked by an Ndebele force of about 5, 000, who looted all of Potgieter's livestock, but were unable to defeat the laager in what became known as the Battle of Vegkop.
On 17 January 1852, the United Kingdom signed the Sand River Convention treaty with 5, 000 or so of the Boer families ( about 40, 000 white people ), recognising their independence in the region to the north of the Vaal River, or the Transvaal.
On 13 March 1900, following the Battle of Paardeberg, British forces captured the city and built a concentration camp nearby to house Boer women and children.
On his way to Denmark through Belgium on 4 April 1900 Edward was the victim of an attempted assassination, when Jean-Baptiste Sipido shot at him in protest over the Boer War.
On 11 October 1899, the Boer republics invaded the British South African colonies, beginning the Second Boer War.
On his return to South Africa, Robinson he found that a critical situation had arisen in Bechuanaland ( today's Botswana ), where Boer commandos had seized large tracts of territory and proclaimed the republics of Stellaland and Goshen.
On 26 February 1881, Colley led a night march of some 360 men to the top of Majuba Hill that overlooked the main Boer position.
On 5 April Methuen led out his Mounted Infantry under Brig-Gen Lord Chesham, with the Kimberley Mounted Corps and 4th Battery RFA, and caught a Boer Commando led by a French volunteer, the Comte de Villebois-Mareuil.
On 31 October 1899, he shipped to South Africa, arriving on 13 December for the Second Boer War.
On 30 October, General White ordered an attack on northern Boer positions.
On 6 January, the King's mounted infantry helped repulse a Boer attempt to penetrate the southern perimeter.
On 2 November, Boer forces encircled and isolated the town of Ladysmith, beginning a 118-day siege.
On October 8, 1887, Joaquim Boer led a large group of Italian immigrants to Brazil.
On 6 January 1900 the Boer forces of Commandant-General Piet Joubert attempted to end the siege by taking the town before the British could launch another attempt to break the siege.
On 16 December 1880, the first shots of the First Boer War were fired when the Boers laid siege to the old fort.
On 8 May 1901 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 1st battalion of the Leinster Regiment and was posted to South Africa to see out the Second Boer War.
On 6 December 2010, after the resignation of Martin Jol, de Boer was appointed caretaker manager of Ajax until the winter break.
On 23 December 1899 Roberts returned to South Africa on the RMS Dunottar Castle in command of British troops fighting in the Second Boer War.
On 20 October 1899, the first shots of the Second Boer War were fired.
On April 11, 1902, Rooiwal, near Klerkdorp, saw the Battle of Rooiwal, the last major engagement of the war, where a Boer charge was beaten off by entrenched British troops.
On administrative days, officers wore a blue patrol jacket detailed with a pleated spine pad, a relic of the Boer War.
On 27 February, after a confused night attack, the surviving Boer soldiers surrendered-around 4, 000 in total.
On 1 August 2001 the South African Post Office issued a stamp featuring Crean as part of their commemorations for the Second Boer War.
On and side
On the downstream, or `` pavilion '', side these vaults give out onto terraces twice as wide as the bridge itself.
On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.
`` On each side of the Hoogli, where we are now sailing, are the Hindoo cottages, as thick together as the houses in our seaports.
On the social side, the chore Mama had at the formal receptions at the White House thrilled her the most.
On Christmas Eve, students brought out two small Christmas trees which I placed on either side of the tent.
On the other side are the Celtic survivalists who have taken a tack divergent from both these schools of nineteenth century thought.
Even so, it adds up to impossible odds, except that the question arises, On whose side would the Mainland Chinese army fight??
On the other side of the church was a quiet, well-kept house with shutters and recently painted.
On the east side of the island of Manhattan the indifferent hawk knew the East River that connected New York Bay with Long Island Sound.
On the other side of the Golden Horn I rode through Eminonu Square, with Yeni Cami, or the New Mosque, which dates from the Seventeenth Century, just across from the entrance to the bridge.
On each side of the motor well there's storage for battery, bumpers, line and spare props with six-gallon gas tanks below.
On C, from the point P at Af to the point Q at Af, we construct the chord, and upon the chord as a side erect a square in such a way that as S approaches zero the square is inside C.
On the one side we have the university professors and their students, trained in Teutonic methods of research, who have sought out, collected and studied the true products of the oral traditions of the ethnic, regional and occupational groups that make up this nation.
On the other side of the ledger is the fact that he did see his niece and the woman with whom she was staying.
On his side of the road there were two farm hands, well back in a field, leaning against a plow.
On this side of the Bay, Miami Beach cops had no more legal rights than any ordinary citizen, and Shayne's pistol permit was just as good as theirs.
On the negative side of the balance sheet must be set some disappointment that the United States leadership has not been as much in evidence as hoped for.
More: On the free world side.
On the positive side, recent Federal action has largely undermined the legal sanction so long enjoyed by the segregationist position ; ;
`` On the side toward the horizon -- the southern hemisphere -- it is spring ; ;
" On the biological or physical side, human measurements, genetic samples, nutritional data may be gathered and published as articles or monographs.
On the surface of the ground or in water they move by undulating their body from side to side.
On September 13, 1861, in view of the decision of the Kentucky legislature to side with the Union after the occupation of Columbus by Polk, Johnston ordered Brig.
On the opposite side of the continent,
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