What is "transvaal"

Usage examples of "transvaal".

The burghers of the Transvaal and of the late Orange Free State were legitimate belligerents, and to be treated as such--a statement which does not, of course, extend to the Afrikander rebels who were their allies.

Transvaal and the Barolongs, a Bechuana tribe, was submitted to arbitration.

The chief of these was the great drive down the Eastern Transvaal undertaken by seven columns under the command of French.

It would take a volume to catalogue, and a library to entirely describe the movements and doings of the very large number of British columns which operated over the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony during this cold-weather campaign.

The only other important operation undertaken by the British columns in the Transvaal during this period was in the north, where Beyers and his men were still harried by Grenfell, Colenbrander, and Wilson.

Jameson raiders supported the outlanders of the Transvaal, so also the soldiers and tribesmen of Afghanistan sympathised with and aided their countrymen and coreligionists across the border.

The company had its main plant near the town of Germiston in the industrial triangle of the Transvaal.

Then the Sotho are thought to have gone south over the river into what is now the Transvaal in the middle of the fifteenth century, or thereabouts, and the Shona a little later.

British Government on behalf of the mining industry of the Transvaal, were founded solely upon the statement of the Volksraad Commission itself.

There remain to be mentioned those attacks upon trains and upon the railway which had spread from the Free State to the Transvaal.

South Africa, Bechuanaland, and the Transvaal for selling fraudulent treasure maps.

There was no movement for a fortnight afterwards upon either side, save that of Sir Charles Warren, who left the army in order to take up the governorship of British Bechuanaland, a district which was still in a disturbed state, and in which his presence had a peculiar significance, since he had rescued portions of it from Boer domination in the early days of the Transvaal Republic.

For this purpose an armoured train was despatched only three days after the expiration of the ultimatum to the point four hundred miles south of Bulawayo, where the frontiers of the Transvaal and of Bechuanaland join.

Natal from this time onward became a British colony, and the majority of the Boers trekked north and east with bitter hearts to tell their wrongs to their brethren of the Orange Free State and of the Transvaal.

At this period the Transvaal, where most of the Boers had settled, desired a formal acknowledgment of their independence, which the British authorities determined once and for all to give them.