Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
Christiaan Rudolf de Wetwas a South African Boer general, rebel leader and politician...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 October 1854
believed cost dead
For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.
government naturally war
Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.
branded call deal finally good hesitate lay name nations shall
These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.
wounded
The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.