Abstract
For the time being, the failure of the Boers’ offensive did not signify that the strategic and operational initiative shifted to the British side. The burghers took up widespread defensive positions and left it to the British to decide on what basis the war would be conducted. In view of the fast growing British troop strength it is logical that these forces would breach the Boer lines sooner or later.
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Notes
C.R. de Wet, De Strijd tusschen Boer en Brit [The Struggle between Boer and Briton], p. 29. Although this book was translated into English as The Three Years War (Reprinted by Galago, Alberton, 1986), the translation is not always accurate. The original source was, therefore, used for this work.
F.R.M. Cleaver, A Young South African — a Memoir of Ferrar Reginald Mostyn Cleaver; advocate and veldkornet, p. 50 (Cleaver — his mother, 26 January 1900).
Cleaver, A Young South African, p. 50 (Cleaver — his mother, 26 January 1900).
J.H. Snyman, ‘Die Afrikaner in Kaapland, 1899–1902’ [The Afrikaner in the Cape, 1899–1902] Unpublished D Phil dissertation, Potchefstroom University, 1973, pp. 162–163.
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Scholtz, L. (2005). The First British Offensive. In: Why the Boers Lost the War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230513310_4
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