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Directly under his authority were the Assistant Commandant-Generals, five of whom were appointed by the Volksraad a short time before the beginning of hostilities. Then in rank were those who were called Vecht-Generals, or fighting generals, in order to distinguish them from the Assistant-Generals.
One of the first acts was the appointment of five assistant commandant-generals Piet Cronje, Schalk Burgher, Lucas Meyer, Daniel Erasmus, and Jan Kock all of whom held high positions in the Government, and were respected by the Boer people.
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