Roberts now surrounds General Piet Cronjé's retreating…

February 1900 CE

Roberts now surrounds General Piet Cronjé's retreating Boer army.

It takes ten days to bombard the Boers into submission, and when the British troops use the polluted Modder River as water supply, typhoid kills many troops.

General Cronjé is forced to capitulate at Surrender Hill with four thousand men on February 27.

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Paardeberg Drift Orange Free State South Africa View →

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Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts View → Frederick Russell Burnham View → George Francis Robert Henderson View → J. B. M. Hertzog View → John Denton Pinkstone French View → Louis Botha View → Neville Bowles Chamberlain View → Paul Kruger View → Paul Sanford Methuen View → Piet Cronjé View → Redvers Buller View →

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Boers View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Orange Free State, Republic of the (Boer Republic) View → South African Republic (the Transvaal) (restored) View →

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Boer War, Second or Great View →

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