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State, and the military leaders Louis Botha, Barry Hertzog, Koos De la Rey and Christiaan De
Wet. They were informed by the British Commander-in-Chief, Lord Kitchener, of the correspondence
that had passed between the King of England and the Queen of the Netherlands about bringing the
warring parties together and, after two days’ discussion, wrote to Kitchener to ask for a meeting at
which they could bring forward proposals. The meeting took place on 12 April in Pretoria.
See also:
Peace Negotiations.
Reference:
De Wet, Christiaan, Three Years War (London, Archibald Constable, 1902).
Kloof
A ravine.
Kock, Assistant Commandant-General J. H. M.,
1835–99
As a boy Kock was with his father when the Boers fought the British first at Zwartkopjes in April
1843 and then at Boomplats in September 1848. He became Landdrost (district magistrate) of
Potchefstroom in 1874 and a member of the Executive Council of the South African Republic
(Transvaal) in 1892. He led the Johannesburg Commando and the German Corps into Natal in 1899.
He allowed his forces to take the village of Elandslaagte rather than holding the hills and was
attacked and defeated there on 21 October. He was mortally wounded while leading a last attack on
the British.
See also:
Elandslaagte, 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); Knight, Ian, Warrior Chiefs of
Southern Africa (Poole, Firebird, 1994).
Koedoesberg Drift, Battle of,
5–8 February 1900
The failure of Lord Methuen’s attempt to relieve Kimberley, culminating in the British defeat at the
Battle of Magersfontein on 11 December 1899, and taken together with the other failures of so-called
“Black Week”, led to the replacement of Sir Redvers Buller as Commander-in-Chief by General Lord
Roberts. Roberts arrived at Modder River Station in the second week of February 1900 with
substantial reinforcements. In order to distract the Boers from his true intentions – to move to the east
– he sent the Highland Brigade, now under General Hector MacDonald, along the Riet River
westwards to Koedoesberg Drift, near the Kimberley/Douglas road. Vecht-generaal Piet Cronjé sent
Christiaan De Wet with only 350 men to counter the move. An inconclusive fight to contest
occupation of the nearby hill went on for three days before both sides withdrew. On the British side
Lieutenant Freddie Tait, a champion golfer, was killed.
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