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See also:JOUBERT, PETRUS JACOBUS (1834–1900) , commandant-See also:general of the See also:South See also:African See also:Republic from 188o to 1900, was See also:born at Cango, in the See also:district of Oudtshoorn, Cape See also:Colony, cm the loth of See also:January 1834, a descendant of a See also:French Huguenot who fled to South See also:Africa soon after the revocation of the See also:Edict of
See also:Nantes by 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 XIV. See also:Left an See also:orphan at an See also:early See also:age, Joubert migrated to the See also:Transvaal, where he settled in the See also:Wakkerstroom district near See also:Laing's Nek and the See also:north-See also:east See also:angle of See also:Natal. There he not only farmed with See also:great success, but turned his See also:attention to the study of the See also:law. The esteem in which his shrewdness in both farming and legal affairs was held led to his See also:election to the Volksraad as member for Wakkerstroom early in the sixties, Marthinus See also:Pretorius being then in his second See also:term of See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office as See also:president. In 187o Joubert was again elected, and the use to which he put his slender stock of legal knowledge secured him the See also:appointment of See also:attorney-general of the republic, while in 1875 he acted as president during the See also:absence of T. F. See also:Burgers in See also:Europe. During the first See also:British See also:annexation of the Transvaal, Joubert earned for himself the reputation of a consistent irreconcilable by refusing to hold office under the See also:government, as See also:Paul See also:Kruger and other prominent Boers were doing. Instead of accepting the lucrative See also:post offered him, he took a leading See also:part in creating and directing the agitation which led to the See also:war of 1880–1881, eventually becoming, as commandant-general of the See also:Boer forces, a member of the triumvirate that administered the provisional Boer government set up in See also:December 188o at See also:Heidelberg. He was in command of the Boer forces at Laing's Nek, Ingogo, and See also:Majuba See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, subsequently conducting the earlier See also:peace negotiations that led to the conclusion of the See also:Pretoria See also:Convention. In 1883 he was a See also:candidate for the See also:presidency of the Transvaal, but received only 1171 votes as against 3431 See also:cast for Kruger. In 1893 he again opposed Kruger in the contest for the presidency, See also:standing as the representative of the comparatively progressive See also:section of the Boers, who wished in some measure to redress the grievances of the Uitlander See also:population which had grown up on the See also:Rand. The See also:poll (though there is See also:good See also:reason for believing that the voting lists had been manipulated by Kruger's agents) was declared to have resulted in 7911 votes being cast for Kruger and 7246 for Joubert. After a protest Joubert acquiesced in Kruger's continued presidency. He stood again in 1898, but the See also:Jameson See also:raid had occurred mean-See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time and the voting was 12,858 for Kruger and 2001 for Joubert. Joubert's position had then become much weakened by accusations of treachery and of sympathy with the Uitlander agitation. He took little part in the negotiations that culminated in the See also:ultimatum sent to Great See also:Britain by Kruger in 1899, and though he immediately assumed nominal command of the operations on the outbreak of hostilities, he gave up to others the See also:chief See also:share in the direction of the war, through his inability or neglect to impose upon them his own will. His cautious nature, which had in early See also:life gained him the See also:sobriquet of " Slim Piet," joined to a lack of determination and assertiveness that characterized his whole career, led him to See also:act mainly on the defensive; and the strategically offensive movements of the Boer forces, such as Elandslaagte and See also:Willow See also:Grange, appear to have been neither planned nor executed by him. As the war went on, See also:physical weakness led to Joubert's virtual retirement, and, though two days earlier he was still reported as being in supreme command, he died at Pretoria from See also:peritonitis on the 28th of See also:March 1900.
End of Article: JOUBERT, PETRUS JACOBUS (1834–1900)
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