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Methuen, Lieutenant-General Lord,
1845–1932
Paul Sanford, third Baron Methuen, joined the Scots Guards in 1864 and served in the Ashanti
Expeditionary Force in 1874 and the Bechuanaland Expedition of 1884–85. In November 1899 he
arrived to assume command of the 1st Army Corps in the western theatre and fought, in swift
succession, the Battles of Belmont, Graspan, Modder River and Magersfontein. The latter was a
failure, one of the defeats of “Black” Week, as the British press called it. He was active throughout
the guerrilla phase of the war, defeating the European Legion at Boshof on 5 April 1900 and being
defeated by Koos De la Rey at Tweebosch on 7 March 1902. He became friends with De la Rey after
the war. In 1908 he became General Officer Commanding forces in South Africa.
See also:
Belmont, Battle of; Boshof, Battle of; Graspan, Battle of; Magersfontein, Battle of; Modder
River, Battle of; Tweebosch, 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).
Meyer, General Lucas,
1846–1902
In 1884 Lucas Johannes Meyer became President of the New Republic, a territory of some 3,000
square miles (7,500 sq km) granted to the Boers by the Zulu chief Dinzulu in recognition of Boer help
against the Mandhlakazi. Britain recognised the republic two years later, but in 1888 it merged with
the Transvaal. Meyer was well disposed to the uitlandersand opposed the policies of President
Kruger, but when war broke out he fought for the Boers. He fought at the Battle of Talana but fell ill
outside Ladysmith within the next two weeks and thereafter played only a modest part in affairs.
See also:
Lombard’s Kop, Action at; Talana, 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).
Middelburg, Conference at,
28 February 1901
The peace discussions at Middelburg produced concrete proposals that were approved by the British
Government in London. The position of black Africans was to be more to the Boer liking, but their
allies in the British colonies were left in jeopardy and the terms were therefore rejected. However,
they were used as a benchmark in later talks.
After a series of overtures starting in November 1900, a meeting was finally arranged in the
town of Middelburg on the Delagoa Bay railway east of Pretoria, between the British Commander-inChief, Lord Kitchener
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