Generaal De Wet in die Vredefortkoepel by Prof V E d' Assonville( Afrikaans text)
Generaal De Wet in die Vredefortkoepel by Prov V E d'Assonville( Afrikaans text)
Softcover: ISBN: 9780620466196
Used: Marnix: 2010
Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some slight/limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet (7 October 1854 – 3 February 1922) was a Boer general, rebel leader and politician.
Born on the Leeuwkop farm, in the district of Smithfield in the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State, he later resided at Dewetsdorp, named after his father, Jacobus Ignatius de Wet.
De Wet served in the first Anglo-Boer War of 1880–81 as a field cornet,taking part in the Battle of Majuba Hill, in which the Boers achieved a victory over the British forces under Major General Sir George Pomeroy Colley. This eventually led to the end of the war and the reinstatement of the independence of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, more commonly known as the Transvaal Republic.
In the years between the First and Second Boer Wars, from 1881 to 1896, he lived on his farm, becoming a member of the Volksraad in 1897.
In September 1899, de Wet and his three sons were called up as ordinary private burghers without any rank. He was a member of the Heilbron kommando and they were ordered to proceed to the Natal frontier. On 11 October 1899, while he was reconnoitring the Natal frontier, De Wet was elected vice-commandant of Heilbron. He participated in the fight at Nicholson's Nek on 30 October, when 954 British officers and men surrendered.Thereafter, he took part in the Siege of Ladysmith.
On 9 December 1899, De Wet received a telegram from the State President, M.T. Steyn, informing him that he had been appointed a fighting general and was to proceed to the Western frontier.He found General Piet Cronjé in command of the Boer forces ensconced at Magersfontein, south of Kimberley, while the English were at the Modder River. De Wet was to be Cronje's second-in-command.
De Wet took an active part in the peace negotiations of 1902. On 30 May 1902, he briefly took on the role of acting State President of the Orange Free State, when President Steyn had to leave the negotiations due to illness. De Wet was one of the signatories of the Treaty of Vereeniging.
Prof. Victor d’Assonville is ’n bekende skrywer in Suid-Afrika. Meer as 40 boeke en sowat 250 tydskrifartikels het onder die naam VE d’Assonville uit sy pen verskyn. Sy boeke sluit ’n wye verskeidenheid van interessante Bybelse en geskiedkundige onderwerpe asook biografiese werke in.
Die historiese boeke van prof. VE d'Assonville handel oor belangrike onderwerpe en gebeure in die geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika en die Boerevolk, bv. ‘Majuba’ en ‘Bloedrivier’ (beide boeke is in Afrikaans en Engels beskikbaar). Die boeke ‘Die Groot Diamantroof’ asook ‘Kruger en Rhodes’ handel oor gebeure tussen Boer en Brit in die negentiende eeu. Van sy boeke bring telkens nuwe navorsing en feite aan die lig oor momente in die Anglo-Boereoorlog (‘Generaal de Wet in die Vredefortkoepel’ en ‘Op die Bodem van die Vaaldam’), die Rebellie (‘O Vaalriver! ..., Broederstroom’ en ’n deel van ‘Op die Vaaldam se bodem’) en oor die werk van Eugène Marais in die Waterberge (Afrikaans en Engels).
