Show TREATY OF PRETORIA 1902 the strain between tho the transvaal and the british government the united states 8 of africa willell which Is 19 now looming hinr p in tile HIP nf af fairs of tile lie british empire Is 14 one of the res tilis of the of Pre which cl closed ocil the boer war ai i begun in october of 1800 1809 for jnnny years ears the relations 9 between tile lie hoei boer republic of the tunis trans vaul annl luul cape anpo co colony lolly iving I 1 ing to lo the south bouth of it lint ciul been strained w fill n resulting strain upon the relations relation s 1 between L lie ho tiling annl mid and tile the british 0 government o eminent the alie orange rice free Is tilte hans between caw capp colony colon an and the I 1 rot got along better with the IIrI tIsh lilt but when ilic 1110 war nine came threw its lot will lah tile lie boer republic the enuse of friction wits the highhanded high handed dianner in ili which under president resident Il kruger alt It inders or allens in cio 0 treated tile boer or native lotion of the transvaal was ns phout of hoin were mero votilie catl lit zens the five sixtus sixths of whom spoke english were ere estimated nt at nhouy henrly half of wm were male adults and lit in december of 1805 1895 according to lord bryce their numbers were era increasing nt at thin ante of nearly 1000 n week through nirh als front from cape town ton etione and it ans ns estimated tint that should tile deep levels of the lie mines RO go on prospering by loo 1005 i there would be nn an tion in n the republic of half ft a million or nearly eight times no af anni era us its natives tho the was practically excluded except in n very limited and theoretIc nI way from n share in the government hilt but lie wag taxed until the transvaal treasury was overflowing ing and tho were loping tho the country conducting the inra i enterprises rind were the pill ein of labor on a largo large sanle sea also the ho Trans vital government would mould not provide fr ovIde effi elent police for the tallies and refused to bags laws to keep anaam from froin the natives believed themselves Temi elvea superior TI alio in boers treated the the british especially with w lilt tile the utmost contempt bell bellied eyed themselves thom seles a superior race and able to strind lit in arms any time against grent brinnin naturally friction was vas bound to occur and matters went from bad to worse until tile tho jemeson raid of 1805 instigated by cecil rhodes doctor jameson n scottish started front from Pit sani a town in ili bechu anarand with n force forca of about WD GOO men inen to important coee rity of johannesburg lie had count ed cil on nil it gener general 91 uprising of the lie alt ill der S hut but somebody ili blundered till 1 I ered ife ho wnm not supported mid and wits was taken prisoner on january 2 jameson Jn meson the lie american mining engineer john lanys and others of prominence among the landers were thrown into prison Jn jameson ineson was sent seat to england for trial where lie was found guilty of violating the foreign enlistment net act and sentenced to n ton tell months imprisonment but was let oft off through the efforts nf theamer the amer ican government and from I 1 he country tills this raid mid gave nn excuse to kruger fot foi moro more repressive men measures agni n gt lie file landers relations between great brinnin and the became more and more strained until nt lit lust last lit in october of 1809 1899 war broko broke out tile boors were a people who could minot and ride immense stretches of territory lind had to be fought over where re tile boer was perfectly nt homo home lie ile was ably led and fought within handy reach of ills bases of nf supplies the british were poorly officered nt at first the british government failed to realize tile ho prowess ot of its enemy until its ita Or annles lilles had suffered repented repeated reverses and it was conducting a war many anany thousands of miles lulles away and doing it by the bookish theory until rind experience taught a bitter le lesson it wits not until kitchener mid roberts were ili sent gent down there that lint british arms recovered their tho the doers besl besieged eged Lady ladysmith smith on october 20 1809 1899 and it wits not until antl I 1 february 28 23 1000 that tile the town was rell relieved eved kimberly wag besieged on october 14 and not rell relieved eved until february 15 of the following year while the siege of lusted lasted from october IS 15 1800 1890 to may 19 of the next year the capture of cronies Cronje Cron jes ls irmy army nt at tile lie I 1 modder river on february 27 of 1000 and the taking of pretoria on june 5 were other notable events of the war the boers still held r cut ut in small bands and it was not until IW 1002 that n pence peace wits funnily concluded on may alay 31 1009 2 n treaty wnm RI signed ened by the lie british and boer represent ri lives tit nt tit the boer capitani capit ni pretoria by till this treaty the and tile orange free state como caine under british I 1 ah colonial government no punishment was to be imposed upon tile lie to dc dented by way of indemnity or flues fines or tn in tiny other kotlier way nad the lie rights of the boers to a participation in the gov emment wits was k |