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See also:BOTHA, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS (1862- ) , See also:Boer See also:general and statesman, was the son of one of the " Voortrekkers," and was See also:born on the 27th of See also:September 1862 at See also:Greytown (See also:Natal). He saw active service in See also:savage warfare, and in 1887 served as a See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-See also:cornet. Subsequently he settled in the See also:Vryheid See also:district, which he represented in the Volksraad of 1897. In the See also:war of 1899 he served at first under See also:Lucas See also:Meyer in See also:northern Natal, but soon See also:rose to higher commands. He was in command of the Boers at the battles of See also:Colenso and Spion Kop, and these victories earned him so See also:great a reputation that on the See also:death of P. J. See also:Joubert, Botha was made See also:commander-in-See also:chief of the See also:Transvaal Boers. His capacity was again demonstrated in the See also:action of See also:Belfast-Dalmanutha (See also:August 23-28, 1900), and after the fall of See also:Pretoria he reorganized the Boer resistance with a view to prolonged See also:guerrilla warfare. In this task, and in the subsequent operations of the war, he was aided by his able lieutenants de la Rey and de Wet. The success of his See also:measures was seen in the steady resistance offered by the Boers to the very See also:close of the three years' war. He was the chief representative of his countrymen in the See also:peace negotiations of 1902, after which, with de Wet and de la Rey, he visited See also:Europe in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to raise funds to enable the Boers to resume their former avocations. In the See also:period of reconstruction under See also:British See also:rule, General Botha, who was still looked upon as the See also:leader of the Boer See also:people, took a prominent See also:part in politics, advocating always measures which he considered as tending to the See also:maintenance of peace and See also:good order and the re-See also:establishment of prosperity in the Transvaal.
After the See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of self-See also:government to the Transvaal in 1907, General Botha was called upon by See also:Lord See also:Selborne to See also:form a government, and in the See also:spring of the same See also:year he took part in the See also:conference of colonial premiers held in See also:London. During his visit to See also:England on this occasion General Botha declared the whole-hearted See also:adhesion of the Transvaal to the British See also:empire, and his intention to See also:work for the welfare of the See also:country regardless of racial See also:differences.
End of Article: BOTHA, LOUIS (1862- )
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