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Foulkes was to be responsible for the British work on the development of poison gas as a
weapon.
After the capture of Pretoria in June 1900 Major H. M. Jackson, Royal Engineers, commanding
the mapping section of the Field Intelligence Department, acquired access to the archives of the South
African Republic’s surveyor-general. He was therefore able to produce a new map, IDWO No. 1495,
to accompany Lord Roberts’s report of 14 August 1900, after the Battle of Diamond Hill (or
Donkerhoek). This was the first of a series of 62 maps covering the Transvaal and the Orange Free
State as well as parts of the British colonies, published in monochrome on a scale of 2.35 miles to the
inch (1:148,000), actually 1,000 Cape Roods to the inch. They were something of an improvement on
the IDWO No. 1367 series, but remained fairly primitive even for strategic planning and were useless
for tactical work. Further developments followed, such as the production of a companion series to the
Imperial Map of South Africacovering Cape Colony undertaken by No. 2 Survey Section in May
1900.
Contemporary British descriptions of events relate closely to the IDWO No. 1367 or IDWO No.
1495 maps, including the spelling of place-names. The maps used in the official British history of the
war were the product of Nos. 3 and 4 Survey Sections which arrived in 1902. Since then many
changes have taken place, particularly as a result of the standardisation of Afrikaans spelling in the
1950s. In the 1980s and 1990s the rendering of place-names often reverted to the original language,
although local signs and modern maps may still retain earlier versions.
See also:
Bergendal, Battle of; Colenso, Battle of; Diamond Hill, Battle of; Magaliesberg Mountains;
Magersfontein, Battle of; Modder River, Battle of; Talana, Battle of; Vaalkrans, Battle of.
Reference:
Jewitt, A. Crispin, Maps for Empire: the First 2000 Numbered War Office Maps (London, The
British Library, 1992); Jones, Huw M. and Meurig G. M. Jones, A Gazetteer of the Second
AngloBoer War (Milton Keynes, The Military Press, 1999); Marix Evans, Martin, The Boer
War: South Africa 1899–1902 (Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 1999).
Martial Law
Sir Alfred Milner’s eagerness to achieve political control of the former Boer republics as head of a
civil administration was frustrated by the flowering of the guerrilla war and the necessity of
maintaining a military presence, and thus martial law, throughout the land.
As the British occupied the Boer republics the territories came under martial law. In May 1900
Sir Alfred Milner ceased to be governor of Cape Colony and assumed the post of governor of the
Transvaal in order to impose British political control and bring back refugees to resume their
occupations in the gold mines. This brought him into conflict, none the less real for being conducted
with courtesy, with the British Commander-in-Chief, Lord Roberts. On 10 May Milner sought to open
discussions of the civil power taking over
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