See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS See also:BOTHA (1862- )
, See also:Boer See also:general and statesman, was the son of one of the " Voortrekkers," and was See also:born on the 27th of See also:September 1862 at See also:Greytown (See also:Natal)
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He saw active service in See also:savage warfare, and in 1887 served as a See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-See also:cornet
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Subsequently he settled in the See also:Vryheid See also:district, which he represented in the Volksraad of 1897
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In the See also:war of 1899 he served at first under See also:Lucas See also:Meyer in See also:northern Natal, but soon See also:rose to higher commands
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He was in command of the Boers at the battles of See also:Colenso and Spion Kop, and these victories earned him so See also:great a reputation that on the See also:death of P
.
J
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See also:Joubert, See also:Botha was made See also:commander-in-See also:chief of the See also:Transvaal Boers
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His capacity was again demonstrated in the See also:action of See also:Belfast-Dalmanutha (See also:August 23-28, 1900), and after the fall of See also:Pretoria he reorganized the Boer resistance with a view to prolonged See also:guerrilla warfare
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In this task, and in the subsequent operations of the war, he was aided by his able lieutenants de la Rey and de Wet
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The success of his See also:measures was seen in the steady resistance offered by the Boers to the very See also:close of the three years' war
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He was the chief representative of his countrymen in the See also:peace negotiations of 1902, after which, with de Wet and de la Rey, he visited See also:Europe in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to raise funds to enable the Boers to resume their former avocations
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In the See also:period of reconstruction under See also:British See also:rule, General Botha, who was still looked upon as the See also:leader of the Boer See also:people, took a prominent See also:part in politics, advocating always measures which he considered as tending to the See also:maintenance of peace and See also:good order and the re-See also:establishment of prosperity in the Transvaal
.
After the See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of self-See also:government to the Transvaal in 1907, General Botha was called upon by See also:Lord See also:Selborne to See also:form a government, and in the See also:spring of the same See also:year he took part in the See also:conference of colonial premiers held in See also:London
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During his visit to See also:England on this occasion General Botha declared the whole-hearted See also:adhesion of the Transvaal to the British See also:empire, and his intention to See also:work for the welfare of the See also:country regardless of racial See also:differences
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