25 and 26. Inthe last quarter of
1899, Afrikaner commandos
defeated British forces in Natal
and the Cape Colony and
besieged Ladysmith, Kimberley,
and Mafeking. During 1900 the
British relieved the besieged cities,
captured Bloemfontein,
Johannesburg, and Pretoria, and
formally annexed both Boer
republics. They then assumed that
the "Boer War" was virtually
over. They were wrong.
Commandos resorted to guerrilla
warfare and held out until 3I
May 1902. They repeatedly broke
the railway network that linked
the coast with the interior.
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