The Union of South Africa was created from a merger of the British Cape Colony and Colony of Natal, and the conquered Boer republics.
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Showing posts with label South African Republic (Transvaal). Show all posts
Showing posts with label South African Republic (Transvaal). Show all posts
Monday, May 31, 2010
Friday, November 17, 2000
Saturday, November 17, 1900. British barbarity in the Transvaal.
Field Marshal Kitchener announced a plan that would result in Boer concentration camps in the Transvaal., following a policy of rural depopulation first explored by the Spanish in Cuba.
The campbs would end up housing 111,619 white and 43,780 black citizens residents of the Transvaal. They'd feature a 34% death rate.
Dr. Ernest Reynolds discovered the cause of an outbreak of alcoholic neuritis in the United Kingdom. It was traced to a manufacturer of contaminated glucose used in the brewing process, and then to impure sulfuric acid used in processing the glucose. Seventy people died as a result, 36 of those people in Manchester.
The U.S. Navy completed tests on 12 inch naval guns.
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Friday, November 16, 1900. The lynching of Preston Porder.
Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Thursday, October 25, 1900. The Empire of Korea.
The Korean peninsula was renamed the Empire of Korea by the Chosen dynasty.
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The Transvaal Colony was annexed to the United Kingdom and made part of the Union of South Africa.
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Wednesday, October 24, 1900. Khaki Election
Thursday, September 14, 2000
Friday, September 14, 1900. Henry F. Schroeder.
Twenty-two men of the 16th Infantry defeated a Filipino force of 400 insurgents at Carig. The man in command, Sgt. Henry F. Schroeder, won the Medal of Honor.
His citation read:
With 22 men defeated 400 insurgents, killing 36 and wounding 90.
Schroeder was a career solider who had joined the Army in 1896 and retired as a Major in 1930. He died in 1959 at age 84.
The Transvaal proclaimed Schalk Willem Burger to be acting president of the South African Republic. Paul Kruger had fled.
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Thursday, September 13, 1900. High costs.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Cuba, Disease, Medicine, Personalities, Philippine Army, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines
Friday, September 1, 2000
Saturday, September 1, 1900. Britain annexes the South African Republic.
The United Kingdom annexed the South African Republic.
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Friday, August 31, 1900. A campaign against the Yaqui ends.
Tuesday, October 12, 1999
Thursday, October 12, 1899. Battle of Kraaipan and a Homecoming in Vermont.
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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Wednesday October 11, 1899. The Boer War Commences.
Labels: 1890s, 1899, Boer War, British Army, British Empire, Cape Colony, Mining, Orange Free State, South African Republic (Transvaal), The Boer Republics, United Kingdom
Monday, October 11, 1999
Wednesday October 11, 1899. The Boer War Commences.
The Boer Republics' deadline having expired, the Boer War commenced with a formal declaration of war.
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Tuesday, October 10, 1899. Isaac R. Johnson patented the modern bicycle frame.
Saturday, October 9, 1999
Monday, October 9, 1899. Boer ultimatum.
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.
Alexander Merensky, “Original map of the Transvaal or South-African Republic,” HIST 1952, accessed October 9, 2024, https://hist1952.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/show/179.
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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Sunday, October 8, 1899. Marines take Noveleta, Luzon.
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