Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . th a wise liberality toward the conquered Boers, Britain.\frican proceeded to give them self-government like other parts of the empire. In 1910 an act of Parliament formed a SoutivAfricanUnion on the model of Canada and Australia. This includesthe flourishing Cape Colony, with its great diamond minesabout Kimberley, Xatal to the northeast, and the two Boer re-publics — the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. These arenow managed as a single federation by
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . th a wise liberality toward the conquered Boers, Britain.\frican proceeded to give them self-government like other parts of the empire. In 1910 an act of Parliament formed a SoutivAfricanUnion on the model of Canada and Australia. This includesthe flourishing Cape Colony, with its great diamond minesabout Kimberley, Xatal to the northeast, and the two Boer re-publics — the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. These arenow managed as a single federation by a representative of theBritish ruler and a parliament which makes laws for the wholeunion. When war broke out between England and Germany Union Great Britain and her Empire 671 in 1914 the Germans expected the Boers to rise against Eng-land, but they were disappointed. The prime minister of theSouth African Union, General Botha, who had been the bestBoer general in the war against England fifteen years before, notonly easily suppressed a rising of some of his old comrades, butconquered German West Africa for the British empire. The. Fig. 174. General Louis Botha possessionsin Africa British look with much pride upon this tribute to their wisdomin granting freedom and self-government to the Boers.^ In addition to these colonies Great Britain has three enor- other Britishmous provinces in Africa occupied almost entirely by of the Cape lies the Bechuanaland protectorate, inhabitedby peaceful native tribes. Next beyond Bechuanaland and the 1 There are about six milUons of people in the South African Union, but alarge portion of these are colored. The white population, including both thoseof English and those of Dutch descent, do not equal in number the inhabitantsof Philadelphia. 6/2 Medieval and Modern Times Transvaal is Rhodesia, which was acx^uired through the BritishSouth Africa Company by two annexations in 1888 and 1898and, with subsequent additions, brought u
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