Abstract
As stated before, the original British war plan entailed the invasion of the Free State from the south and then to advance along the railway line to Bloemfontein and Pretoria. Despite the initial successes by the Boers, Buller initially intended not to deviate from this plan, but in order to relieve Ladysmith he decided to postpone it.1
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Jack Hindon, ‘Herinneringen van genl. Piet Cronjé’ (Reminiscences of Gen. Piet Cronjé). Die Brandwag magazine, 15 October 1913, p. 297.
Unless stated otherwise, all the information in this section is derived from the following sources: Breytenbach, Geskiedenis van die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog [History of the Second War of Freedom], IV, Chapters IX—XVII; Scholtz, Generaal Christiaan de Wet as Veldheer [General Christiaan de Wet as Military Commander], Chapter 2; and J.L. Basson, ‘Die Slag van Paardeberg’ [The Battle of Paardeberg], unpublished MA thesis, University of Pretoria, 1971.
Asselbergs, ‘Dagboek’ [Diary], 17 March 1900, pp. 47–53.
N.J. van der Merwe, Marthinus Theunis Steyn, II, p. 65; Oskar Hintrager, ‘Dagboek’ [Diary], 5 September 1900 (Christiaan de Wet-Annale, No. 2, October 1973, pp. 138–140).
Field Marshal Count Alfred von Schlieffen, Cannae (Berlin, 1936).
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Scholtz, L. (2005). The Second British Offensive. In: Why the Boers Lost the War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230513310_5
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