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Three Years’ War

by Christiaan de Wet

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — I Go on Commando as a Private Burgher
  3. 3Chapter II — Nicholson’s Nek
  4. 4Chapter III — Ladysmith Besieged
  5. 5Chapter IV — I Am Appointed Vechtgeneraal
  6. 6Chapter V — The Overwhelming Forces of Lord Roberts
  7. 7Chapter VI — Paardeberg
  8. 8Chapter VII — The Wild Flight From Poplar Grove
  9. 9Chapter VIII — The Burghers Receive Permission to Return to Their H…
  10. 10Chapter IX — Sanna’s Post
  11. 11Chapter X — Four Hundred and Seventy English Taken Prisoner at Redd…
  12. 12Chapter XI — An Unsuccessful Siege
  13. 13Chapter XII — The English Swarm Over Our Country
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Our Position at the End of May, 1900
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Roodewal
  16. 16Chapter XV — I Make Lord Kitchener’s Acquaintance
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Bethlehem Is Captured by the English
  18. 18Chapter XVII — The Surrender of Prinsloo
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — I Am Driven Into the Transvaal
  20. 20Chapter XIX — I Return to the Free State
  21. 21Chapter XX — The Oath of Neutrality
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Frederiksstad and Bothaville
  23. 23Chapter XXII — My March to the South
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — I Fail to Enter Cape Colony
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — Wherein Something Is Found About War Against Women
  26. 26Chapter XXV — I Again Attempt to Enter Cape Colony
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Darkness Proves My Salvation
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — Was Ours a Guerilla War?
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — Negotiations With the Enemy
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — President Steyn’s Narrow Escape
  31. 31Chapter XXX — The Last Proclamation
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — Blockhouses and Night Attacks
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — My Commando of Seven Hundred Men
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — A Success at Tweefontein
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV — I Cut My Way Through Sixty Thousand Troops
  36. 36Chapter XXXV — I Go to the Transvaal With President Steyn
  37. 37Chapter XXXVI — Peace Negotiations
  38. 38Chapter XXXVII — The End of the War
  39. 39Correspondence
  40. 40Appendix A
  41. 41Appendix B
  42. 42Appendix C

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