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Author Name: SPENDER, HAROLD
Title: General Botha. The career and the man.
Binding: Hard Cover
Publisher: Boston Houghton Mifflin Co. 1916
Seller ID: 8394
348 pages, frontispiece (portrait), 4 maps, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, ' Louis Botha (1862–1919, South African soldier and statesman. A Boer (Afrikaner), he participated in the founding (1884) of the New Republic, which joined (1888) the Transvaal. Although Botha had little previous military experience, he brilliantly commanded Boer troops in the South African War. He besieged the British at Ladysmith and defeated their forces at Colenso. In 1900 he succeeded General Joubert as commander of the Transvaal army and led its remnants in guerrilla fighting. After the war (1902) he favored cooperation with the British. Botha was (1907–10) premier of the Transvaal. As the leader of the United South African, or Unionist, party he was prime minister of the Union of South Africa from its organization (1910) until his death, and he was ably assisted by Jan Christiaan Smuts. In World War I, Botha declared South Africa a belligerent on the side of the Allies. He suppressed a Boer revolt and in 1915 led the forces that conquered the German colony of South West Africa.'
SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH AFRICAN BOER WAR GENERAL LOUIS BOTHA
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