Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . e.: . ars tervened. Finally England, after some humiliat-ing 3, was s rnnexed the two With a wise liberality . srs, Britain African pr; g ; them <. -_ eminent like other p - the empire. In 1910 an act ament formed South African Ur the mode strata. This inch: the flourishing Cape Colony, with Its g .about Kimberley, Natal lortheast, and the two Boer re- publics-— the Orange Fret State and the Transvaal. These arenow managed as a sing e federation by a rep
Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . e.: . ars tervened. Finally England, after some humiliat-ing 3, was s rnnexed the two With a wise liberality . srs, Britain African pr; g ; them <. -_ eminent like other p - the empire. In 1910 an act ament formed South African Ur the mode strata. This inch: the flourishing Cape Colony, with Its g .about Kimberley, Natal lortheast, and the two Boer re- publics-— the Orange Fret State and the Transvaal. These arenow managed as a sing e federation by a representative ofBritish ruler and a parliament which makes laws for the wholeunion. When war broke out between England and Germany Union (j re at Britain and Jicr Umpire Gyi 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 eornrades, butconquered German West Afriea for the British empire. The. Fig. 174. General Louis Botha possessionsin Africa British look with mueh pride upon this tribute to their wisdomin granting freedom and self-government to the 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 millions 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. 672 Medieval and Modern Times Transvaal is Rhodesia, which was acquired through the BritishSouth Africa Company by two annexations in 1888 and 1898and, with subsequent additions, brought unde
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