... the hills of Magersfontien on the Orange Free State and Cape Colony. Within a week's time, referred to as Black Week by the British, each of the new units had been defeated by the Boers. On January 10, 1900, the British general Frederick S. Roberts was sent to replace Buller ... that sustained and sheltered the guerrillas, placing black African and Boer women and children in concentration camps, and building a strategic chain of formidable iron block houses for his troops. Negotiations for peace began on March 23, 1902, and on May 31, Boer leaders signed the treaty of Vereeniging. ... ...

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