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Reference:
Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999); Reitz, Deneys, Commando (London,
Faber & Faber, 1929; Prescott, Arizona, Wolfe Publishing, 1994).
Erasmus, Major P. E.
Piet Erasmus was one of the brothers of Maroola Erasmus and served with the Staatsartillerie.He
was trained in the Netherlands in 1893, did not pass the Lieutenant’s examination but was
commissioned by a board chaired by Captain A. F. Schiel. He dealt with the purchase of the 155mm
Creusot Long Toms and served at the siege of Ladysmith where he was in command of the unit whose
Long Tom was put out of action in the raid on Gun Hill.
See also:
Artillery, Boer; Ladysmith, Siege of; Trichardt, Lieutenant-colonel S. P. E.
Reference:
Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999).
Ermelo
A town in the South African Republic (the Transvaal) in the centre of the wedge created by the
railway running east from Pretoria and the railway going south-east from Johannesburg to Volkrust
and northern Natal. Ermelo was at the heart of the country swept by the British in the guerrilla phase
of the war. It was occupied by one side and then the other for a year, and as a result was entirely
destroyed. The fate of Ermelo illustrates the devastation visited on the land by the British efforts to
catch Boers in the guerrilla phase of the war.
Major-general Lord Dundonald occupied the town in August 1900 and a hundred Boer burghers
surrendered. When the British left the Boers came back, only to leave again in October when
Lieutenant-general French’s cavalry division came to town and to move in once more when he left. In
the great sweep or drive of January and February 1901 the arrival of Assistant Commandant-general
C. F. Beyers and his men increased the Boer force there to 6,000 men before they were forced to
move away to the south.
By April the British were gone and Commandant-general Louis Botha’s men came in, the town
then becoming the temporary capital of the republic with the presence of Acting President Schalk
Burger and his government. In May the British came back again. The final blow fell in September
1901 when Major-general F. W. Kitchener’s columns left only one house standing. Thereafter the site
was a base for British sweeps in the eastern Transvaal towards the Swaziland border.
See also:
Blockhouses; Drives.
Reference:
Jones, Huw M. and Meurig G. M. Jones, A Gazetteer of the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902
(Milton Keynes, The Military Press, 1999).
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