Group photograph of the participants in the peace conference at Middelburg, Transvaal, during the Second Anglo-Boer War. Sitting (left to right); [not General Christiaan de Wet], General Louis Botha, General Lord Kitchener, Colonel Ian S. M. Hamilton. Standing (left to right); Colonel G. F. R. Henderson, Dirk Overgaauw (“Dick”) van Velden, Major Watson, H. Fraser, Captain Maxwell, H. de Jager. FILE PHOTO
What you need to know:
The royal army struggled to cope with the tactics of the guerrillas and resorted to forbidden methods to gain an upper hand.
