Louis Botha's War

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by Adam Cruise

Samson, Anne. ‘South African mining magnates and World War One’. Unpublished academic paper presented as a lecture at Brenthurst Library to the Boksburg Historical Association, November 2012

  Stevenson, R.E. ‘A carbineer remembers’. South African Military History Society, Military History Journal 2 (2), December 1971

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  Dierks, Klaus. ‘South West Africa becomes a League of Nations mandate: 1919–1945’. Online Namibia Library of Dr Klaus Dierks, available at http://www.klausdierks.com/FrontpageMain.html, last accessed 28 May 2014

  ‘Disaster at Gibeon Station’. The Soldier’s Burden, available at http://www.trenchfighter.com/41815/205801.html, last accessed 28 May 2014

  ‘German Colonial Uniforms’. Available at http://www.germancolonial uniforms.co.uk, last accessed 28 May 2014

  ‘Kakamas: Recon Abteiling von Hadeln’. The Soldier’s Burden, available at http://www.trenchfighter.com/40029/150601.html, last accessed 28 May 2014

  ‘The history of the South African Air Force’. South African Air Force, available at http://www.af.mil.za/about_us/history.html, last accessed 28 May 2014

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  Index

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for items of interest. For your reference, the items that appear in the print index are listed below.

  acclimatisation

  Active Citizen Force

  Adler, Lieutenant

  aerial photographs

  aeroplanes see aircraft

  ‘A Force’

  African National Congress (ANC)

  Afrikaans-speaking vs English-speaking whites

  aircraft

  Alberts, Brigadier General J.J.

  America see United States of America

  ANC (African National Congress)

  Anglo-African Who’s Who and Biographical Sketchbook, The

  Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902

  Anglo-Zulu War

  Angola (was Portuguese West Africa)

  Angolan Bush War

  anti-aircraft guns

  anti-British sentiment see Afrikaans-speaking vs English-speaking whites

  apartheid

  armoured cars see motor cars

  Armstrong breech-loading cannon, 15-pounder

  artillery see weapons and artillery

  askaris

  Aus

  Aviatik

  Badenhorst, Colonel Commandant

  Bambatha Rebellion of 1906

  Basters

  Belgium

  Berrangé, Colonel Christian Anthony Lawson

  Beves, Brigadier General Percival Scott

  Beyers, Commandant General Christiaan Frederick

  Bezuidenhout, Commandant

  ‘B Force’

  biltong

  Bismarck (horse)

  bittereinders (bitter-enders)

  black people see people of colour

  black rhinos

  bodyguards of Louis Botha

  Boer commando system

  Boer insurrection of 1914

  Boer War see Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902

  Bondelswarts tribe

  Botha, Annie

  Botha, Hermanus ‘Manie’

  Botha, Louis

  Britain declares war

  Britain’s request

  anti-German sentiment

  Churchill and

  black people

  anti-British sentiment

  aim of campaign

  launch of campaign

  Rebellion of 1914

  bodyguards of

  advance on Windhoek

  cost of campaign

  Cullinan diamond

  aircraft

  north of Windhoek

  peace negotiations

  Pom-Pom guns

  impact of campaign

  death of

  statues of

  legacy

  Botha, Piet

  Botha, P.W.

  Bouwer, Colonel

  Britain see Afrikaans-speaking vs English-speaking whites

  Brits, Brigadier General Coen

  background of

  East African Campaign

  Rebellion of 1914

  South-West Africa campaign

  Burenvreikorps (German reservist troops)

  Buxton, Sydney Charles

  Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry

  Cape Mounted Rifles

  Caprivi, Count Leo von

  Caprivi Strip

  Castro, Fidel

  Central Force (was ‘C Force’)

  ‘C Force’ (later Central Force)

  Churchill, Winston

  cichlid

  civilian population, German

  Cold War

  Collins, Colonel Commandant

  Collyer, Brigadier General J.J.

  on Brigadier General Myburgh

  as chief of staff

  on Colonel Skinner

  on commando system

  East African Campaign

  on information about SWA

  on Lieutenant Colonel Collins

  on peace negotiations

  on strategy

  colonies of Germany

  commandos see Boer commando system

  Committee of Imperial Defence

  Commonwealth War Graves Commission

  communication lines

  see also wireless stations

  Company’s Gardens, Cape Town

  concentration camps

  see also Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902

  conscription, South African Defence Force

  control of territory, maps

  copper mines

  cost of campaign for Union of South Africa

  Cuba

  Cullinan, Sir Thomas

  Cullinan diamond

  Dawson, Colonel

  Defence Act of 1912

  De la Rey, General Koos

  De Villiers-Graaff, Sir David

  De Wet, General Christiaan

  diamonds

  Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo

  documents, official German

  East African Campaign

  Eastern Force

  Egypt

  English-speaking vs Afrikaans-speaking whites

  Enselin, Captain

  Etosha National Park

  Farman aircraft

  Fiedler, Lieutenant Paul

  ‘firsts’ associated with South-West Africa campaign

  Fischer, Sergeant

  food see supply lines

  Fort Mucasso

  Fort Namutoni

  Fourie, Major Jopie

  France

  Franke, Major Erich Viktor Carl August

  background

  Botha’s feint

  Franke Tower

  guerrilla warfare

  at Karibib

  at Otavi

  peace negotiations

  Portuguese forces

  at Swakop River

  ‘This is a hippodrome!’

  at Trekkoppies

  Frankenberg, Lieutenant Victor von

  Franke Tower

  Free State see Orange Free State

  Gaertringen, Captain von

  Gandhi, Mohandas

  Garub

  George V, King of England

  German civilian population

  German reservist troops (Burenvreikorps)

  German Schütztruppe

  Germany expected to win war

  Ghana see Togola
nd

  Gibeon

  Goanikontes oasis

  Gransden, Captain C.L.

  Grant, Lieutenant Colonel R.C.

  graves

  Great Contemporaries

  Greater Namaqualand

  Grootfontein

  guerrilla warfare

  Gunners’ Memorial, Potchefstroom

  Hadeln, First Lieutenant Friedrich von

  Hansa Hotel

  Hartigan, Major M.M.

  Hartigan’s Horse

  Henri Farman HF-27s

  Herero people

  Heroes’ Acre, Pretoria

  Hertzog, General James Barry Munnik

  Heydebreck, Lieutenant Colonel Joachim von

  Caprivi Strip

  death of

  Portuguese forces

  Rebellion of 1914

  South-West Africa campaign

  Himba people

  horses

  hospital trains

  Houm’s Drift

  Hunoldt, Lieutenant

  impact of South-West Africa campaign

  Imperial Light Horse

  Imperial War Graves Commission

  insurrection of 1914

  ‘invasion’ of Union of South Africa

  Irish regiment

  Jaafar Pasha

  Jackson, Captain F.E.

  Jakkalswater

  Jameson, Dr Leander Starr

  Jordaan, Lieutenant Colonel

  Judd, Colonel B.C.

  Kabus training camp

  Kakamas

  Kalahari Desert

  Kalkfeld

  Kaltenhausen

  Karibib

  kaross

  Keetmanshoop

  Kemp, Major Jan

  Khorab Memorial

  Khorab Station

  Kilo 500

  Kimberley

  Kiries West

  Kitchener, Lord

  Kleist, Major von

  Kleist, Ewald von

  Kleist, Paul von

  Labour Party

  Lake Guinas

  Lake Otjikoto

  landmines

  Lawrence, T.E.

  League of Nations

  Leliefontein mission station

  Lemmer, Colonel

  Lettow-Vorbeck, Paul Emil von

  LFG Roland biplane

  lorries

  see also mechanised vehicles

  Lüderitz

  Luhonono see Schuckmannsburg

  Lukin, Brigadier General Henry Timson

  Lusitania

  Madagascar

  Maharero, Samuel

  Malan, D.F.

  maps

  control of territory

  dearth of

  movement of soldiers

  Southern Africa in 1914

  Maritz, Lieutenant Colonel Salomon Gerhardus ‘Manie’

  background

  Rebellion of 1914

  South-West Africa campaign

  McKenzie, Brigadier General Sir Duncan ‘Dunc’

  mechanised vehicles

  Meintjes, Johannes

  Mentz, Colonel

  mines see landmines

  Moçâmedes (now Namibe)

  Modderfontein

  Moore-Ritchie, Lieutenant Eric

  motor cars

  motorcycles

  Mucasso (fort)

  mules

  Mushroom Valley

  Myburgh, Brigadier General M.W.

  Nama people

  Namib Desert

  Namibe see Moçâmedes

  Namibia

  independence of

  landscape of

  Namib-Naukluft National Park

  NamibRand exclusion zone

  Namutoni (fort)

  Natal Carbineers

  National Party

  National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)

  Natives Land Act of 1913

  Nonidas observation post

  Northern Force

  Northway, Lieutenant

  OB see Ossewa Brandwag

  Okaukuejo

  Okiep Country Hotel

  see also O’okiep

  Omaruru

  O’okiep (now Okiep)

  Orange Free State

  Orange River

  Ossewa Brandwag (Oxwagon Sentinel)

  Ostermann, Sergeant Oswald

  Otavi

  Otjikoto tilapia (Tilapia guinasana)

  Otjimbingwe

  Otjiwarongo

  Ovambo people

  peace negotiations

  people of colour

  Permanent Force

  Pforteberg

  poachers

  poisoned waterholes

  political impact of South-West Africa campaign

  Pom-Pom gun

  Poole, Captain

  Port Nolloth

  Portugal

  Portuguese West Africa see Angola

  prisoners of war

  Purified National Party

  racism see apartheid

  radio communication see communication lines; wireless stations

  railway lines

  Raman’s Drift

  Rand Rebellion

  Rappard, Major Emil von

  Rebellion of 1914

  Rehoboth

  Reid, Signaller

  Reitz, Deneys

  Reitz, Francis William

  Reitz, Joubert

  Republic of South Africa

  Republic of Vryheid

  reservist troops (Burenvreikorps)

  rhinoceros

  Rhodes, Cecil John

  Rhodesian regiment

  Riet Farm

  Rietfontein

  Ritter, Major Hermann

  Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts

  Rössing Station

  Royston, Lieutenant Colonel

  rusks

  SAAC (South African Aviation Corps)

  SAAF (South African Air Force)

  sabre-rattling

  safe of gold

  Salem

  Salisbury, Lord

  Sandfontein, Battle of

  Sandfontein Nature Reserve

  San people

  Scheele, Lieutenant Alexander von

  Schuckmannsburg (now Luhonono)

  scorched-earth policy

  see also Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902

  Scottish regiments

  scouts

  Seitz, Governor Theodor

  Senussi uprising

  Skinner, Major General Percy Cyriac Brunnel

  ‘Skinny Liz’

  Smuts, General Jan

  Bondelswarts tribe

  death of

  Deneys Reitz and

  East African Campaign

  Kalahari Desert crossing

  Manie Maritz and

  as political leader

  Rand Rebellion

  Rebellion of 1914

  South African Aviation Corps

  South-West Africa campaign

  Union Defence Force

  Somme, Battle of the

  South African Air Force (SAAF)

  South African Aviation Corps (SAAC)

  South African Border War

  South African Mounted Rifles

  South African Native National Congress

  South African Party

  Southern Army

  Southern Force

  South West Africa see Namibia

  South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)

  Soviet Union

  Spanish flu

  Sperrgebiet exclusion zone

  Spioenkop, Battle of

  steam engines

  Steinkopf

  Strachan, Hew

  striking miners

  supply lines

  surrender see peace negotiations

  Swakopmund

  Swakop River

  SWAPO (South West Africa People’s Organisation)

  Swart’s Scouts

  Togoland

  Transvaal

  Transvaal Horse Artillery


  Treaty of Khorab

  see also Kilo 500

  Treaty of Vereeniging

  Treaty of Versailles

  Trekkoppies

  Trew, Major H.F.

  Trück, Willy

  trucks see lorries

  Tsaukaib

  Tsetse flies

  Tsumeb

  Tsumeb Corporation Limited

  Tsumeb Museum

  Tulio (scuba diver)

  Ulundi, Battle of

  UN see United Nations

  Union Defence Force

  Unionist Party

  Union of South Africa

  UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola)

  United Nations

  United Party

  United States of America

  Upington

  Van der Spuy, Lieutenant Kenneth

  Van Deventer, Dirk

  Van Deventer, Brigadier General Jacob Louis ‘Jaap’

  Van Rensburg, Niklaas

  Van Vuuren, Captain

  Van Wyk, Captain Cornelius

  Verwoerd, Hendrik

  Vryheid Republic

  Walvis Bay

  water see poisoned waterholes; supply lines

  Waterberg Mountains

  weapons and artillery

  aerial bombing

  anti-aircraft guns

  German Schütztruppe

  Lake Otjikoto

  landmines

  ‘Skinny Liz’

  Union Defence Force

  Welby, Captain E.F.

  wells, poisoned

  Whittall, Lieutenant Commander W.

  Wilhelmstal

  Winburg

  Windhoek

  landscape of

  surrender of

  wireless stations

  see also communication lines

  Wylie, Colonel

  Zulu people

  Museum Africa

  Commandant General Louis Botha during the Anglo-Boer War

  Museum Africa

  Prime Minister Louis Botha during the First World War

  The Times History of the War, Volume I, 1914; Wikimedia Commons

  General Jan Smuts as minister of defence

  South African Archives; Wikimedia Commons

  Brigadier General Henry Timson Lukin

  Bildbestand der Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft in der Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main; Wikimedia Commons

  Major General Victor Franke

  Karsten Herzogenrath

  Von Heydebreck (in white on the left) and the Mountain Gun Battery of the South-West African Schütztruppe in Okahandja in 1903

  Wikimedia Commons

  A mounted Schütztruppen

  Koloniales Bildarchiv, Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main

  Schütztruppe training for battle, circa 1907. Horses were trained to lie prone to provide cover for their riders under fire

  Source unknown

  South African mounted troops crossing Raman’s Drift, on the way to Sandfontein

  Adam Cruise

  Major von Rappard’s grave at Sandfontein

  Adam Cruise

  Today a modern lodge sits on the site of the Battle of Sandfontein. The koppie can be seen in the background

 

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