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Dam
A reservoir or lake created by the construction of a dam.
Dartnell, Brigadier-General J. G.
John George Dartnell was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1838. At seventeen years of age he was
commissioned into the 86th Royal County Down Regiment and served throughout the Indian Mutiny.
He was Chief Commissioner of the Natal Police for twenty-six years and was promoted Brigadiergeneral when he assumed command of the Natal Volunteers at Ladysmith. His local knowledge was
invaluable during the retreat to Ladysmith, the siege and in northern Natal when Commandant-general
Louis Botha attempted to invade once more in 1901.
De Aar
An important railway junction on the main Cape Town to Kimberley line which continues north to
Mafeking and Rhodesia. The line to the south-east goes to Naauwpoort Junction and thence to Port
Elizabeth to the south and Stormberg to the east. De Aar was thus an important supply centre for the
British. Lieutenant-general Lord Methuen’s troops gathered here in November 1899 and it was the
centre of Lord Kitchener’s campaign against the Cape rebels west of the railway in March 1900.
Delagoa Bay Railway
For the Boer republics, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, railway communications, and
therefore the substantial import or export of goods, were by way of Cape Colony or Natal. For the
British, the Imperial dream of a Cape-to-Cairo railway was limited by the Boer territories which
resisted rail development. In the 1880s, as gold and diamonds increased in importance, the railheads
were all outside Boer territory and kept there by the Boers until the early 1890s. It was not until they
found an alternative that would be under Boer control that the difficulties eased. President Kruger
reached agreement with the Portuguese and a line from Lourenço Marques, the port on Delagoa Bay
in Portuguese East Africa, to Pretoria was completed in 1895. This line was to provide the Boers
with their only
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