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offer made after diamonds had been discovered along the Orange River, moved his people to an
area south of the Drakensbergs between the Cape and Natal that became known as East Griqualand.
The original area, now called West Griqualand, was the subject of dispute between the Orange Free
State and the British. The West Griqualand chief, Andries Waterboer, was represented by a lawyer
called David Arnot who, in 1871, persuaded the Keate Commission, charged with the responsibility
of settling the border dispute between the Griqua, Cape Colony and the Orange Free State, that
Britain had grounds for annexing West Griqualand – and thus the diamond fields. The finding was
later, in 1875, established as being invalid, but as it was impossible to unravel its consequences,
compensation was paid to the Orange Free State.
Reference:
Troup, Freda, South Africa: An Historical Introduction (London, Eyre Methuen, 1972).
Grobler, Assistant Chief-Commandant E. R.,
1861–1937
Born in the Orange Free State, Esaias Renier Grobler became a member of the Volksraad
(Parliament) in 1886. At the start of the war he commanded on the border with Cape Colony and then
became commander of the Orange Free State forces in the southern part of the republic. He occupied
Stormberg Junction, an important railway junction over the Orange River in Cape Colony, on 23
November 1899 with some 1,500 men. A British force under Lieutenantgeneral Sir William Gatacre
stumbled on a Boer unit of this force and was compelled to withdraw; this action resulted in some
eighty British casualties and over 600 men being taken prisoner by the Boers. The Battle of
Stormberg was one of three defeats inflicted on the British that made up “Black Week” and led to the
replacement of Sir Redvers Buller as Commander-in-Chief by Lord Roberts. Grobler subsequently
fought at Colesberg and Paardeberg, resisted the British advance from Bloemfontein and was
wounded and captured in 1900 near Springfontein in the southern Free State. After the war he was
active in the government of the Union of South Africa.
See also:
Colesberg; Paardeberg, Battle of; Stormberg, Battle of.
Reference:
Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999).
Guerrilla War
An irregular war conducted by small bodies of combatants acting independently. The word guerrilla
means, literally, little war and emerged in connection with the Napoleonic conflict in Spain in the
early 19th century. The style of warfare, however, is much older, the earliest reference being found in
the Hittite Anastas Papyrusof the 15th century BC.The objective is not to take and hold ground, as in
conventional warfare, but to force
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