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He won notable victories over the British and in spite of their best efforts they were never able
to catch him. He resisted any suggestion of surrender to the very end, but bowed to the majority view.
His determination to oppose the British was extreme and found expression once more in the uprising
of 1914.
Born in the Orange Free State, De Wet served against the Basotho in 1865 in their second war
against the Free State. After moving to the Transvaal and becoming a Field Cornet in the Heidelberg
Commando, he fought in all the major engagements of the First Boer War in northern Natal. At the
outbreak of the Second he was living in Heilbron in the Orange Free State and served in Natal as a
member of that commando, swiftly being promoted to Acting Commandant. He played a part in the
Boer victory at Nicholson’s Nek on 30 October 1889 and was transferred by order of President Steyn
to the western frontier on 9 December with the rank of Vechtgeneral, arriving at Magersfontein on 16
December. Here he served under Assistant Commandant-general Piet Cronjé of whom he formed a
poor opinion. When Cronjé was surrounded at Paardeberg, De Wet contrived a means of escape for
the men which they declined to use, though he omits to consider to what extent his eagerness to
plunder a British supply train at Waterval Drift, and his consequent delay in moving in support,
contributed to the British investment of Cronjé’s force.
At Sannaspos on 31 March 1900 De Wet showed his flexibility in turning a destructive mission
directed at a waterworks into an ambush of great subtlety, before going on to conduct successful
operations to the south. He made the mistake of letting his personal hatred for the Cape Colony
Afrikanders who joined Brabant’s Horse overcome his military judgement at Jammerbergdrif but
thereafter remained mobile and elusive. His rich haul of plunder at Roodewal in June 1900 triggered
the British farm burning reprisals with the destruction of his own farm nearby. The following month
he broke for ever with his brother who advocated making peace. De Wet’s attempts to enter Cape
Colony led to a two-week chase south of the Orange River, but little was achieved. As the
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