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Updated: May 28, 2025
The Free-Stater preferred to remain in his own country, and he would have been able to do so had we not been hampered by a big "waggon-camp" and a large number of oxen. As these were with us, the Boers found it hard to make up their minds to break through the English lines as a horse-commando, as it necessitated leaving all these waggons and oxen in the hands of the enemy.
Yet whenever we picked up reports of engagements in the camping places of the English we repeatedly saw that they had taken a Boer camp and their greatest delight was to say that it was one of De Wet's convoys. They could not have been convoys of mine, because for the last fifteen months I had had no waggon-camp with me.
If a waggon-camp was taken, it could only have been one consisting of women, who were flying in order to escape capture by the English, and to avoid being sent to the concentration camps. Everywhere in the State the women were taking to flight, and their terror was increased tenfold when the news came that many a woman and child had found an untimely grave in these camps.
The sad experience we had gained from six months' warfare, and more especially the great misfortune that had overtaken the big waggon-camp of General Cronje, were our reasons for this new regulation. I left the meeting firmly determined that, come what might, I should never allow another waggon-camp.
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