THE LAST BOER WAR
"I am told that these men (the Boers) are told to keep on agitating inthis way, for a change of Government in England may give them again theold order of things. Nothing can show greater ignorance of Englishpolitics than such an idea. I tell you there is no Government—Whig orTory, Liberal, Conservative, or Radical—who would dare, under anycircumstances, to give back this country (the Transvaal). They wouldnot dare, because the English people would not allow them."—(Extractfrom Speech of Sir Garnet Wolseley, delivered at a Public Banquet inPretoria, on the 17th December 1879.)
 
"There was a still stronger reason than that for not receding (from theTransvaal); it was impossible to say what calamities such a step asreceding might not cause…. For such a risk he could not make himselfresponsible…. Difficulties with the Zulu and the frontier tribeswould again arise, and looking as they must to South Africa as a whole,the Government, after a careful consideration of the question, came tothe conclusion that we could not relinquish the Transvaal."—(Extractfrom Speech of Lord Kimberley in the House of Lords, 24th May 1880.H.P.D., vol. cclii., p. 208.)
 
"Our judgment is that the Queen cannot be advised to relinquish theTransvaal."—(Extract from Reply of Mr. Gladstone to Boer Memorial,8th June 1880.)
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THE LAST BOER WAR

BY
H. RIDER HAGGARD

THIRTY-FIFTH THOUSAND

LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO. LTD.
PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD
1900

WORKS BY H. RIDER HAGGARD.
  • Cetywayo and His White Neighbours.
  • Dawn.
  • King Solomon's Mines.
  • The Witch's Head.
  • She.
  • Allan Quatermain.
  • Jess.
  • Colonel Quaritch, V.C.
  • Maiwa's Revenge.
  • Mr. Meeson's Will.
  • Allan's Wife.
  • Cleopatra.
  • Beatrice.
  • Eric Brighteyes.
  • Nada the Lily.
  • Montezuma's Daughter.
  • The People of the Mist.
  • Joan Haste.
  • Heart of the World.
  • Doctor Therne.
  • Swallow.
  • A Farmer's Year.
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  • In Collaboration with Andrew Lang.
  • The World's Desire.
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 AUTHOR'S NOTE.
It has been suggested that at this juncture some students of SouthAfrican history might be glad to read an account of the Boer Rebellionof 1881, its causes and results. Accordingly, in the following pagesare reprinted portions of a book which I wrote so long ago as 1882. Itmay be objected that such matter must be stale, but I venture to urge,on the contrary, that to this very fact it owes whatever value it maypossess. This history was written at the time by one who took an activepart in the sad and stirring events which it records, immediately afterthe issue of those events had driven him home to England. Of theoriginal handful of individuals who were concerned in the annexation ofthe Transvaal by Sir Theophilus Shepstone in 1877, of whom I was one,not many now survive. When they have gone, any further accurate reportmade from an intimate personal knowledge of the incidents attendant onthat ac                        
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