Ontario High School History of England . ^, when. Dr. Jamieson, the British ad-ministrator of the adjoining territory of Rhodesia, ledan armed force into the Transvaal in 1885, hoping tobe assisted by a rising against President Kriiger, he andthose with him were made prisoners, and the incident so. Earl Roberts (1832- ) 510 HISTORY OF ENGLAND inflamed feeling that war soon became inevitable. In1899, Britain, seeing what was coming, began to sendtroops to South Africa. Then President Kriiger made asudden demand that troops on the way out should not belanded. No heed was paid to his demand, and
Ontario High School History of England . ^, when. Dr. Jamieson, the British ad-ministrator of the adjoining territory of Rhodesia, ledan armed force into the Transvaal in 1885, hoping tobe assisted by a rising against President Kriiger, he andthose with him were made prisoners, and the incident so. Earl Roberts (1832- ) 510 HISTORY OF ENGLAND inflamed feeling that war soon became inevitable. In1899, Britain, seeing what was coming, began to sendtroops to South Africa. Then President Kriiger made asudden demand that troops on the way out should not belanded. No heed was paid to his demand, and war broke of South Africa, 1910.—The war proved to be a ter-rible struggle. The Boers, though few in number, were wellequipped and scattered over a vast country, which theyknew thoroughly. Their first attempt was to occupy theadjoining British colony of Natal and reach the sea-coast. They succeeded inshutting up a Britishforce of twelve thou-sand men in the littletown of they laid siegeto this place, and theBritish,under GeneralBuller, tried to relieveit, British troops werepoured into SouthAfrica in such num-bers that four hundredthousand , troops served in the field against the first the British suffered reverses. Finally Lord Robertsand Lord Kitchene
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