Christiaan de Wet

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Christiaan de Wet was a prominent Boer general and guerrilla leader renowned for his daring and highly effective campaigns against British forces during the Second Boer War.

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instanceOf Boer general
guerrilla leader
human
military commander
politician
authored Three Years War (1899–1902)
birthDate 1854-10-07
birthPlace Smithfield district, Orange Free State
burialPlace Bloemfontein, South Africa
conflict First Boer War
Maritz Rebellion
Second Boer War
countryOfCitizenship Orange Free State
Union of South Africa
deathDate 1922-02-03
deathPlace Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, Union of South Africa
detainedBy British authorities
ethnicGroup Boer
familyName de Wet
genre military memoir
givenName Christiaan
hasOccupation farmer
politician
soldier
languageSpoken Afrikaans
Dutch
militaryBranch Orange Free State forces
movement Boer republicanism
name Christiaan de Wet
notableFor guerrilla warfare against British forces in the Second Boer War
hit-and-run tactics and mobility
opponent British Army
British Empire
participatedIn Battle of Sanna's Post
Relief of sieges and raids in the Orange Free State during the Second Boer War
placeOfDetention St. Helena
positionHeld Commandant-General of the Orange Free State forces
Senator in the Union of South Africa
member of the Orange Free State Volksraad
rank general
receivedSentence term of imprisonment and fine after 1914 rebellion
religion Calvinism
supported Maritz Rebellion (1914)
usedTactic guerrilla warfare
hit-and-run attacks
rapid mounted movements
wasPrisonerOfWar true
wasTriedFor rebellion against the Union government


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