Louis Botha informed Lord Kitchener of the Boer rejection of British peace terms. The sticking points were British demands that blacks receive full citizenship and a rejection of full amnesty to Boer Leaders in the Cape Colony.
Gen. Mariano Trias surrendered to the U.S in the Philippines.
It was a Saturday.
Boer General Christiaan de Wet's troop invaded the Cape Colony.
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The Boer Potchefstroom and Lichtenburg commandos attacked and captured the British garrison and railway siding at Kraaipan between Vryburg and Mafeking.
Admiral Dewey was welcomed home to his native Vermont in what was declared as Dewey Day.
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The Boer Republics' deadline having expired, the Boer War commenced with a formal declaration of war.
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The South African Republic (Transvaal) andthe Orange Free State issued an ultimatum to the United Kingdom declaring that a state of war would exist if the British did not remove their troops from their respective borders.
With war approaching, the first first British troops reached Durban, South Africa. The theoretical cause of the war was the Boer treatment of the foreign gold miners in the the Witwatersrand Gold Rush, most specifically the deprivation of the franchise.
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