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	First World War.com - Who's Who - Louis Botha
		Botha succeeded Piet Joubert as Commandant-General of the Boer armies in 1900.
		With the granting of self-government in 1907 Botha was elected Prime Minister, a feat emulated with his election as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa in 1910, a position he retained until his death in Pretoria in 1919.
		Botha, along with Jan Smuts, formed the South African Party in 1911, consisting mainly of supporters of reconciliation between the Afrikaners and the British.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/botha.htm (466 words)

	Louis Botha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Louis, the ninth among thirteen children, was born near Greytown in the Colony of Natal on 27 September 1862.
		Botha was faced with the problem of what to do with General J B M Hertzog, a controversial but influential figure among the Afrikaners, whom Free Staters especially, regarded as their own spokesman.
		Botha felt it was a debt of 'duty and honour' to demonstrate gratitude for the early granting of self-government.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/botha-l.htm (3597 words)

	Louis Botha - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Louis Botha (1862-1919) was an Afrikaaner and first Prime Minister of the modern South African state, then called the Union of South Africa.
		Although Botha's SAP was not as radical in its racism as Herzog's National Party, Botha was widely complicit in the first steps of the South African government toward the tradition of apartheid.
		Louis Botha;: A bibliography (University of Cape Town.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /louis_botha.htm (431 words)

	Louis Botha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis Botha (September 27, 1862 – August 27, 1919) was an Afrikaner and first Prime Minister of the modern South African state, then called the Union of South Africa.
		The constitution that Botha became Prime Minister under had no bill of rights, and allowed for legislative impediments against the inclusion of Africans into the government.
		Although Botha's SAP was not as radically nationalistic as Herzog's National Party, Botha was very involved in the first steps of the South African government toward apartheid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Botha (364 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jan Smuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He described to Louis Botha a manner of guerrilla warfare, which would be suited to the vast expanses of the Veldt.
		Smuts and Botha took the constitution to London to be passed by the British Parliament.
		When Botha died in 1919, Smuts was elected Prime Minister, serving until a shock defeat in 1924 at the hands of the National Party.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jan-Smuts (10685 words)

	Louis Botha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Louis Botha (1862 - 1919) was an Afrikaaner and first Prime Minister of the modern South Africa n state, then called the Union of South Africa.
		Although Botha's SAP was not as radical in its racism as Herzog's National Party, Botha was widely complicit in the first stepts of the South African government toward the tradition of apartheid.
		Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency, Volume 08 By Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Louis_Botha.html (618 words)

	LOUIS BOTHA - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS BOTHA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the period of reconstruction under British rule, General Botlia, who was still looked upon as the leader of the Boer people, took a prominent part in politics, advocating always measures which be considered as tending to the maintenance of peace and good order and the re-establishment of prosperity in.
		After the grant of self-government to the Transvaal in 1907, General Botha was called upon by Lord Selborne to form a government, and in the spring of the same year he took part in the conference of colonial premiers held in London.
		During his visit to England on this occasion General Botha declared the whole-hearted adhesion of the Transvaal to the British empire, and his intention to work for the welfare of the country regardless of racial differences.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BO/BOTHA_LOUIS.htm (375 words)

	Anglo Boer War Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Botha dug trenches and built outworks of rocks and sandbags in front of the hills near the river.
		Botha nevertheless still had the hard core of his men at his disposal and he was determined to carry on fighting.
		As leader of Het Volk, Botha outlined the course to be pursued: conciliation and unification of the Whites in South Africa and the continued insistence upon self-government for Transvaal.
	www.anglo-boer.co.za /botha.html (3260 words)

	General Botha at the Battle of Colenso 15 December 1899 - South African Military History Society - Journal
		Botha's purpose was, first, to achieve the greatest measure of surprise, and secondly, to use the natural obstacle of the Tugela as his first line of defence - which he would otherwise have had to abandon without a fight.
		Botha was convinced that the British with their huge ammunition and supply columns would remain near the railway and would attempt to cross the river in the vicinity of Colenso.
		Botha endured these inconveniences because he could not afford to estrange even a single burgher, and he gained his reward in the esteem and affection of his men.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol017cb.html (4566 words)

	Botha, Louis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Although Botha had little previous military experience, he brilliantly commanded Boer troops in the South African War.
		In World War I, Botha declared South Africa a belligerent on the side of the Allies.
		He suppressed a Boer revolt and in 1915 led the forces that conquered the German colony of South West Africa.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bo/Botha-Lo.html (226 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal- GENERAL BOTHA IN THE SPIOENKOP CAMPAIGN JANUARY 1900
		Botha spent the night in General Tobias Smuts's camp behind Vaalkrans, still feeling ill. The next morning dawned wet and foggy after overnight rain, but from the lower slopes of the hills General Lyttelton's troops, who had crossed the river during the night, could be seen in the koppies north of Potgieter's Drift.
		Botha knew that the burghers were descending the hill in considerable numbers, but he was not concerned about it.
		Botha's military secretary, Sandberg, says in his memoirs that he and Botha were so tired that they dozed off more than once while working on this dispatch.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol021cb.html (6334 words)

	Botha, Louis - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Botha, Louis
		Boer War commander Louis Botha, who in 1907 became the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa.
		He played a prominent role in the national convention which drafted the new South African constitution, and subsequently gained international recognition for the Union at the Versailles Peace Conference, for his support of the Allies during World War I. South African soldier and politician.
		When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, Botha became prime minister, and at the Versailles peace conference in 1919 he represented South Africa.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Botha,%20Louis (261 words)

	Louis Botha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Louis Botha (1862 - 1919) was an Afrikaaner and first Prime Minister of the modern South African state then called the Union of South Africa.
		Although Botha's was not as radical in its racism Herzog's National Party Botha was widely complicit the first steps of the South African toward the tradition of apartheid.
		Louis Botha or John X. Merriman: The choice of South Africa's first prime minister, (Commonwealth papers)
	www.freeglossary.com /Louis_Botha (551 words)

	Encyclopedia: Louis Botha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Louis Botha (September 17, 1862-August 27, 1919) was an Afrikaner and first Prime Minister of the modern South African state, then called the Union of South Africa.
		Louis Botha, copyright expired This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
		Apartheid (International Phonetic Alphabet or in English and in Afrikaans) is the policy and the system of laws implemented and continued by White minority governments in South Africa from 1948 till 1990; and by extension any legally sanctioned system of racial segregation.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Louis-Botha (1300 words)

	LOUIS BOTHA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nach Kriegsende kehrte Botha in die Politik zurück.
		1910 wurde Louis Botha zum ersten Premierminster der südafrikanischen Union gewählt.
		Bei der Verhandlung des Versailler Vertrags trat Louis Botha ohne Erfolg für Nachsicht mit Deutschland ein, unterschrieb ihn aber trotzdem.
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/L/Louis_Botha (196 words)

	Louis Botha
		Louis Botha was born in Greytown, Natel in 1862.
		Botha attended the Paris Peace Conference where he argued against the harsh treatment of the Central Powers.
		A signatory of the Versailles Treaty, Louis Botha died in August 1919.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWbotha.htm (242 words)

	Louis Botha - Wikipedia
		Louis Botha war sein Leben lang politisch aktiv.
		1910 wurde Louis Botha zum ersten Premierminister der südafrikanischen Union gewählt.
		1911 gründete Botha zusammen mit Jan Christiaan Smuts die South African Party, die hauptsächlich aus Befürwortern der Aussöhnung zwischen Briten und Buren bestand.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Botha (187 words)

	The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle 36
		General Louis Botha, with the double intention of making an offensive move and of distracting the wavering burghers from a close examination of Lord Kitchener's proclamation, assembled his forces in the second week of September in the Ermelo district.
		Botha's plans appear to have been to work through Zululand and then strike at Natal, an operation which would be the more easy as it would be conducted a considerable distance from the railway line.
		Louis Botba with his commando is said to have ridden sixty miles in order to join the forces of Grobler and Oppermann, and overwhelm the British column.
	www.classicbookshelf.com /library/arthur_conan_doyle/the_great_boer_war/36 (10506 words)

	Grey Steel—A biography of J C Smuts
		Louis Botha had shown such ability that he had been elected to lead his commando, and then he was made Commanderin-Chief.
		Botha had no office or book training and no scientific theories, but he had a natural genius for handling men and for war.
		Botha pushed him back, beating him by skill, judgment, and tactics in battle after battle, so that Buller telegraphed to England that he had failed, he could not get forward, and sent word into Ladysmith advising White, its commander, to surrender, but White ignored the advice.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/armstrng/chap14.htm (1421 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Jan Christian Smuts
		It was during the Boer War that Smuts became acquainted with Louis Botha, forming a close friendship that lasted until the latter's death in 1919.
		A major proponent of the League of Nations (and so, despite his reservations about growing U.S. worldwide influence, an ally of President Wilson), Smuts argued that Germany's overseas possessions - removed from her by the Treaty of Versailles - should be managed by League of Nations' 'mandates'.
		With Botha's death in 1919 Smuts became Prime Minister of the South African Union until 1924, as he later did again from 1939-1948 (having served as deputy prime minister from 1933), playing an influential role in Winston Churchill's wartime government (also a colleague during the earlier First World War).
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/smuts.htm (675 words)

	Louis Botha Biography / Biography of Louis Botha Biography Biography
		The South African soldier and statesman Louis Botha (1862-1919), one of the most important Boer leaders, helped to establish the Union of South Africa and became its first prime minister.
		Considerations of security for the Afrikaner influenced the attitude of Louis Botha to the Africans, the British, and the nationalists in his community.
		Botha was born into a farming family of Voortrekker (pioneer) and Irish stock near Greytown in Natal on Sept. 27, 1862.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-louis-botha/index.html (244 words)

	South Africa Conflict in the 1920s - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		Botha and Smuts considered that South Africa, as a British dominion, had no choice in the matter, and they sent troops to conquer the German protectorate of South-West Africa (present-day Namibia, mandated by the League of Nations to South Africa following World War I).
		An attempted coup against Botha's government in September was aborted when one of the leaders, an Afrikaner hero from the South African War, was killed by police.
		The political opposition to Botha's entry into the war was led by J.B.M. Hertzog and his newly formed National Party of South Africa (NP).
	workmall.com /wfb2001/south_africa/south_africa_history_conflict_in_the_1920s.html (1308 words)

	General (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Louis Botha rose from being an ordinary private fighter, to becoming the chief commanding officer of the combined Boer forces during the first part of the War.
		He was a man who was physically loved by his men, and hugely admired for his uncanny manner of being able to lay out defences in a manner which had his enemies constantly baffled and totally surprised.
		Botha was severely hunted by the British forces during the latter stages of the war, but despite the fact that his imminent capture was announced several times, he always succeeded in escaping.
	abw.netfirms.com /general.htm (1793 words)

	:: JOBURG'S FAULTY ROBOTS GET A FACELIFT :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Botha expects that the project focusing on the intersections along main arterial roads will be completed by June this year.
		Botha estimates that to replace all the cables, controllers and other upgrades will require some R400-million.
		Similarly, explains Botha, if there is a cable fault and the cable has to be replaced, this might require drilling, which could take a few days or if a pole needs to be replaced as a result of an accident, it could take up to three days to have it fixed.
	www.joburg.org.za /2005/feb/feb4_traffic.stm (799 words)

	South Africa in the Great War
		In August 1914 Louis Botha and Jan Smuts took the Union of South Africa into the war in support of Great Britain.
		Louis Botha, former member of the Transvaal Volksraad and an accomplished leader of Boer forces against the British in 1899-1902 had been elected the first President of the Union of South Africa in 1910.
		An attempted Boer coup against Botha's government failed in September 1914 when Christiaan Beyer - an Afrikaner hero from the earlier war - was killed by police, and a large armed uprising in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal later in the year was also held.
	www.1914-1918.net /south_africa.htm (857 words)

	Greytown Places of Interest
		A cairn on the farm Honeyfontein situated on the Pietermaritzburg road marks the spot where in 1862 Louis Botha was born, the 8th of 13 children.
		Louis was to become Commandant-General of Transvaal forces after distinguishing himself at Ladysmith, Colenso and Spioenkop during the South Africa War.
		Constructed of stone from the original old Greytown Court House and was paid for by Sir George Leuchars, Minister of Agriculture under the Prime Minister Louis Botha during the first Union of South Africa parliament in 1910.
	www.greytown.co.za /interest.htm (1973 words)

	The National Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hertzog had a serious difference of opinion with Prime Minister Louis Botha and General Jan Smuts, his fellow leaders in the SAP.
		He was fiercely and publicly nationalistic, which offended English-speaking South Africans and stood in opposition to Botha’s policies of national unity.
		In December 1912 Botha formed a new cabinet and did not include Hertzog, a move that started the split in the SAP.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/organisations/NP/np-history.htm (987 words)

	Commanding Heights : South Africa Political \| on PBS
		1910: Louis Botha and fellow Afrikaner Gen. Jan Smuts form the South African Party (SAP) in 1910, with Botha as prime minister under a constitution that provides no bill of rights.
		1980-1984: P.W. Botha's "total strategy" includes the implementation of a tri-cameral parliament under an executive presidency, with coloreds (85 seats) and Indians (45 seats) represented, but Africans excluded and whites (178 seats) in control.
		Replacing deceased Prime Minister Botha in 1989, F.W. de Klerk shocks the nation by releasing Sisulu and Mandela from prison and lifting the ban on the UDF, ANC, and PAC.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/za/za_political.html (990 words)

	Louis Botha Children's Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mrs Helen de Waal, daughter of the then Prime Minister general Louis Botha, founded the Louis Botha Home for children in 1918, to provide housing and care to the children orphaned by the “Great Flu Epidemic”.
		The Louis Botha Home for children is an independent, unaffiliated welfare organisation which cares for traumatised children removed by the children's court from their parents' care as a result of physical and emotional abuse or neglect.
		The Louis Botha Home for children is a forerunner of childcare in South Africa.
	www.jacarandachildren.co.za /louis_botha/louis_botha.htm (428 words)

	Louis Botha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Louis Botha (1862-1919) era un afrikaaner y primer primer ministro del estado surafricano moderno, entonces llamado la unión de Suráfrica.
		La constitución que sintió bien Botha al primer ministro debajo no tenía ninguna cuenta de las derechas, y tenido en cuenta barrer impedimientos legislativos contra la inclusión de los africanos aborígenes en el gobierno.
		Aunque la SAVIA de Botha no era tan radical en su racismo como el partido nacional de Herzog, Botha era extensamente complicit en los primeros pasos del gobierno surafricano hacia la tradición del apartheid.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/lo/Louis%20Botha.htm (368 words)

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