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vented by illness from serving further. He died in an automobile accident.
See also:
Diamond Hill, Battle of; Lindley, Battle of; Paardeberg, Battle of; Sannaspos, 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).
Smuts, Assistant Commandant-General Jan Christian,
1870–1950
Jan Smuts was born in Riebeeck West in Cape Colony and studied law at the University of
Cambridge in England. President Kruger appointed him State Attorney of the South African Republic
and in this capacity he attended the meeting with Sir Alfred Milner. He became one of the Boers’
most impressive leaders during the guerrilla war.
When the decision was taken to invade Cape Colony in September 1901 the man expected to
lead the operation was Assistant Commandant-general C. F. Beyers. However, Vecht-general H. A.
Alberts had earlier expressed his misgivings over the plundering of burghers’ goods by Beyers’s
men. Smuts himself wrote of Beyers, “. . .there is much dissatisfaction with the wonderful
combination of praying and looting practised by his forces. . .”. The important task was therefore
given to Smuts. After narrowly escaping at the outset of the invasion, Smuts led his men, including the
young Deneys Reitz, south towards Port Elizabeth, then eastwards before turning north-west towards
Vanrhysdorp, seventy miles (115km) north of Capetown, in January 1902 and eventually on to
besiege O’Okiep (Okiep). He was summoned from there to take part in the peace negotiations.
After the war he was influential in the establishment of the Union of South Africa. He opposed
the Boer uprising against the government on the outbreak of the First World War and fought against
the Germans in command of the British forces in German East Africa (Tanganyika). He then became a
member of the Imperial Defence Cabinet in London. During the Second World War he was Prime
Minister of South Africa as well as being made a field marshal in the British army.
See also:
O’Okiep, Siege of; Reitz, Deneys.
Reference:
Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999); Hancock, W. K., Smuts (Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1962 and 1968, 2 vols.); Ingham, Kenneth, Jan Christian Smuts
(London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986); Pretorius, Fransjohan, Life on Commando during the
Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 (Cape Town, Human & Rousseau, 1999).
Snyman, Vecht-General J. P.
Snyman served under Assistant Commandant-general Piet Cronjé at the
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