Wednesday, October 30, 1901. Battle of Bakenlaagte.

Eastern Transvaal Boer Commandos under the command of General Louis Botha,overwhelmed the British Army No. 3 Flying Column, led by Lieutenant Colonel George Elliot Benson in the Battle of Bakenlaagte.  The battle against the specialized British unit resulted in the loss of 66 British troops dead, 165 wounded, and 120 taken prisoner.

The battle reflected a change in Boer tactics featuring a mounted charge with a close range dismount.

Dr. Emil von Behring was chosen for the first award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  He had discovered the antitoxin to cure the disease of diphtheria and then applied the same principles of blood serum isolation to create a cure for tetanus.

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Sunday, October 29, 1911. Train wreck at Rock River.

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Thursday, September 26, 1901. Czolgosz speaks.

A stunned Leon Czolgosz was sentenced to death for the murder of William McKinley.  He gave a brief statement noting that nobody else was involved in the murder.

The British annexed the territory of the Ashanti Empire into Ghana.  The war that had preceded it, the War of the Golden Stool, did not recover the stool itself, the object of the war.

A report from South Africa indicated that 1,268 Boer civilians had died in concentration camps in the Transvaal, and a further 1,052 in the Orange River Colony.  Most of the dead were children.

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Tuesday, September 24, 1901. Czolgosz found guilty.

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Friday, August 2, 1901. New colonies.

The British government established colonial governments for Boer territory captured from the Orange Free State and the South African Republic, creating, respectively the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal Colony.

Flag of the Orange Free Colony.

Both are now part of South Africa.

On the same day, Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies for the United Kingdom, stated in the House of Commons that the British concentration camps in South Africa were "the only humane alternative to leaving the women and general on the 'desert veld', which in fact is where they lived in the first place and where they would have been better left.

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Thursday, August 1, 1901. Racist Maryland.

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