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killed or wounded and thirty taken prisoner. De Wet’s presence became known to the British,
who pursued him and nearly caught him at Bothaville on 6 November.
See also:
Bothaville, Action at.
Reference:
De Wet, Christiaan, Three Years War (London, Archibald Constable, 1902); Jones, Huw M. and
Meurig G. M., A Gazetteer of the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 (Milton Keynes, The
Military Press, 1999).
French, Lieutenant-General Sir John,
1852–1925
General French commanded the Cavalry Brigade in the dramatic, long, flanking strike that relieved
the siege of Kimberley and his troops continued to play a crucial role in operations up to the end of
the conventional phase of the war. Thereafter he was involved in operations against the guerrilla
commandos with rather less success than he had enjoyed as a cavalry commander in the traditional
sense.
John Denton Pinkstone French joined the 8th Hussars in February 1874 and transferred to the
19th Hussars the following month. He served in Egypt and the Sudan and was involved in the attempt
to rescue Gordon at Khartoum. He was given command of the Cavalry Division in South Africa in
1899 with the rank of Lieutenant-general. In Natal he was successful against the Boers at Elandslaagte
and narrowly avoided being besieged in Ladysmith. The defence of the Cape Colony in the Colesberg
area was his next task. He then served under the new British Commander-in-Chief, Lord Roberts, and
managed to deceive Vecht-general Christiaan De Wet at Waterval Drift at the outset of the flanking
march to relieve Kimberley. The effect on his cavalry of making so swift an advance over difficult
terrain was severe, but he was nonetheless able to make a second hurried march to prevent Assistant
Commandant-general Piet Cronjé escaping from the trap of Paardeberg. He then fought at Poplar
Grove, Driefontein, Zand River, Doornkop and Diamond Hill. French later commanded a number of
the great drives which were intended to entrap Boer commandos during the guerrilla phase of the
war. In 1901 he was given command of British forces in Cape Colony and promoted to Majorgeneral.
Sir John French commanded the British Expeditionary Force in France from the outbreak of war
in 1914 to the end of 1915. He became first Earl of Ypres in 1916 and was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
from 1918 to 1921.
See also:
Diamond Hill, Battle of; Driefontein, Battle of; Doornkop, Battle of; Drives; Elandslaagte,
Battle of; Kimberley, Siege of; Poplar Grove, Battle of; Waterval Drift, Action at.
Reference:
Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999).
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