Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-06-06
BOER WAR IN A NUTSHELL.

OCt. lZ-free Dttlc trOOpS capture
Phillipstown, Cape Colony.
Oct. 13-Transvaalers occupy Newcastle,
and Glencoe.
Oct. 20-Four thousand Beers under Gen.
Joubert defeated by Maj. Gen.
SymoDds, who was mortally wounded.
Oct. 2l-Battle of Elandslaagte, Natal,
Gems. French and Dewet commanding /;
result indecisive, but British fell back
to Ladysmith.
Oct. 30-Three hundred British killed
and wounded and 020 captured at
Nicholson Mex, near Ladysmith.
Ladysmith held 10000 British under
Gen. White; Kimberley held by 2000
men under Col. Kekewick and Cecil
Rhodes, and Mafeking, held by 1900
men under Col. Baden Powell, cut off
and besieged by the Beers.
Oct 31-Gen. Butler lands at Cape Town
with an army of AZ 900 men.
Gen. Methuep, with force of 5000
men, advanced to the relief of Kimber-
ley. Successful at Grasspan and Bel
mont. lie was checked at Modder
River (Nov. 2S) and disastrously de-
feated by Bronze at Magersfontein
(Dec. ID, Gen. Wauchope being killed.
Dec. 19-Gen. Gatacter was badly de-
feated at Stormburg, Cape Colony, los
ing more than 900 men.
Dec. 15-Gen. Butler tried to cross the
Tugela River at Colenso to relieve
Ladysmith. He was badly defeated,
losing over 1000 men and IL guns.
Lieut.. Roberts, son of Lord Roberts,
was killed.
Dec. 23-I.ord Roberts with Gen. Kitch-
ener as Chief of staff set sail from
England to take supreme command of
British troops in South Africa.
Jan. 24-Gen. Buffers third attempt to
relieve Ladysmith repulsed at Spion
Kop.
Feb. 5-His fourth attempt also failure.
Feb. 6-Gen. Roberts takes the field, and
invades the Orange Free State, dividing
the Boer forces.
Feb. General Ere nch's cavalry relieves
starving Kimberley.
Feb. 16-Butler relieves Ladysmith in
the nick of time.
Feb. 27-Gen. Cronje with 1000 Beers,
surrounded at Paardeburg, surrenders.
Presidents Steyn and Kruger make
peace proposals. England demands
unconditional surrender, which is re-
ected. Powers decline to intervene.
March 13-Lord Roberts enters Bloem-
fontein and pauses to reorganize and
retit his army.
March 27-Gen. Joubert dies.
March 29-DeWet wins a great victory
at Sammas Port, killing and wounding
250 men, capturing 1913 and seven guns.
April 6-DeWet captures 400 British
troops at Redersburg.
May Roberts resumes his northward
march.
May l7-Mafeking relieved.
May 30-British army enters the Trans
vaal and occupies johannesburg
June 5-Pretoria capitulated, 5000 Brit
ish prisoners released.
Sept. 1.-Gen. Roberts proclaimed the
annexation of the two republics.
Oct. 17.-President Kruger sailed fol
Europe.
In December Lord Roberts returned tC
Europe, leaving Gen. Kitchener il
command.
Colony caused alarm, and in many
places of the Transvaal the British gar
risons were placed on the defensive
Gen. Kitchener's conciiatory speech tt
peace committee of the Beers showed
that he had changed the policy of un
conditional surrender and was willing
to make concessions.
British movements in Eastern Trans
yaal covered a wide field, but Gen
Botha with 1000 men escaped.
In the Orange Free State seven British
columns tried to trap De Wet, WHIT
won brilliant victory over Maj
Crewe and captured train of cars.
February-De Wet, accompanied by
President Stein and force of 5000
was reported to be making for Philips
town in Cape Colony. There was nj
uprising of the Cape Dutch, and will
heavy losses the Beers crossed bacl
into the Orange Free State. The 81,
flying columns of the British were il
hot pursuit, but valnly tried to captur
him.
After the failure of peace negotiation
fighting was renewed, with successe
and losses on both sides.
The cost of the war was set forth in tn
annual budget statement March 81
OF the total, S7l4,035, 900, it was state,
that S22G, 357 900 would be provide,
for out of taxation, and $40, 230, 00
by loans. An export duty of shilling
a ton was laid on coal, the first known
in English history since 1856. The in
come tax was increased from u to
pence in the pound, and sugar wa
taxed.
April-The British captured april s
Pietersberg, the capital of the Soutl
African Republic after the fall of Pre-
toria.
The number of the Beers in the field i
the latter of April, 1901, was estimates
at $4,000. 1t has been estimated tina
from Dap | 1000 RI April IL 1QOI