Category: History - Other
APPENDIX A.--Lord Derby's Dispatch on Convention of 1884 101 B.--The Annexation of the Diamond Fields 105 C.--The Reply to Mr. Chamberlain's Dispatch on Grievances 109 D.--The Final Dispatch of Mr. State Secretary Reitz 127 E.--The Text of the Conventions, 1852, 1881, and 1884...
Beginning from the point where the north-eastern boundary line of Griqualand meets the Vaal River, up the course of the Vaal River to the point of junction with it of the Klip R...
2. Chapter 2Besides these there are specially executed maps of the Transvaal and Free State, showing all the natural features, also a further secret Report of Communications in Natal north...
10. Chapter 10Items, too, of considerable importance appear in the advances, although they have really been accounted for up to within a pound or two, because for one reason or another it has...
3. Chapter 3We are now leaving the fruitful land of our birth, in which we have suffered enormous losses and continual vexation, and are about to enter a strange and dangerous territory; bu...
7. Chapter 7Mr. Chamberlain represented the Edgar case in the following way:--[45] "But perhaps the most striking recent instance of arbitrary action by officials, and of the support of suc...
1. Chapter 1APPENDIX A.--Lord Derby's Dispatch on Convention of 1884 101 B.--The Annexation of the Diamond Fields 105 C.--The Reply to Mr. Chamberlain's Dispatch on Grievances 109 D.--The F...
9. Chapter 9We, the undersigned, Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, =Martinus Wessel Pretorius=, and =Petrus Jacobus Joubert=, as =representatives delegates= of the =Transvaal Burghers=, _So...
5. Chapter 5Under these conditions the National Union movement originated in 1892. Its adherents were entirely composed of the creatures and parasites of the Capitalists, with a few honest...
8. Chapter 8I have now reviewed all the facts connected with the history of our oppression and persecution during the past hundred years. The allegations I have made are not invented, but a...
4. Chapter 4It was naturally difficult for the Secretary of State to justify his instructions that the Annexation of the Transvaal was only to take place in case a majority of the inhabitan...
11. Chapter 11With regard to the Aliens Expulsion Law, this, like the Press Law, ought to be estimated according to its spirit and operation. Since this law has come into force the State Pres...
6. Chapter 6Please inform Transvaal Government that I have received the following from the Secretary of State:--27th February. Convention signed to-day. New south-western boundary as propos...
12. Chapter 12Article 9. The Government of the Transvaal State will pay and satisfy the amount of every claim awarded against it within one month after the Sub-Commissioners shall have notifi...
14. Chapter 14Transvaal: The Matabeles and the Transvaal, 23 Fight at Vechtkop, 23 Andries Pretorius and the British Government, 23-24 The Sand River Convention, 24-26, 128 British Breaches o...