aal Government, 231

Vrede Commando, Surrender following Prinsloo's Surrender, 128

Vredefort--
Capture of British Outpost, 232
Engagements near, 133, 134, 135
Retreat of the Boers to the Vaal River, 164, 165
Surrender of Arms by Commando after Declaration of Peace, 323, 324

Vredefort-weg Station--Commandant Steenekamp's Success at, 98, 105, 106

Vrijheid--Kaffir Atrocities, Murder and Mutilation of Burghers, 426, 427

Waggons--
Boer Reluctance to abandon use of, 62, 120, 121, 129, 131, 135, 136
Harrismith Burghers' Refusal to part with their Waggons at
Spitskopje, 161-163
De Wet, Commander-in-Chief, Use of Little Waggon, 293, 294, 398
Destruction by British, 120, 121, 191
No Waggons with Commander-in-Chief de Wet's Commando, 279
Vilonel's, Commandant, Persistence in using Waggons, 62
Waggon Camps, Regulation prohibiting, 58

War Commission--Orders to commence Natal Campaign, 4

War Councils, 19
Decisions of Council of March 28, 1900, 61
Doornberg, Council at--Decision as to Presidential Election, 197
Kroonstad Council--Officers present, Decisions, etc., 58 _note_, 59

War of 1877-1881--Futility of Comparison with War of 1899-1902, 421, 422

Warfare, Boer Methods of--
Checking an Enemy's Advance--Boer Tactics, 213
Rapidity of Action, Importance of, 75

Wauchope, General--Death at Magersfontein, 23

Weilbach, Commandant--Desertion of Post at Bloemfontein, 54

Wessels, General J.B.--
Kroonstad War Council, Presence at, 58
Sanna's Post Engagement, Share in, 64

Wessels, Mr. C.J.--
Commander-in-Chief of Free Staters at Magersfontein and Kimberley, 23
Member of Boer Deputation to Europe (1900), 53, 54

Wessels, Veldtcornet--
Capture of, at Frederiksstad, 166, 167
Dewetsdorp Exploits, 176, 177, 178

White, Colonel--Engagement with Commandant Hasebroek near
Thaba'Nchu, 189, 190

White Flag Treachery at Reddersburg, 75, 76

Wire Fencing--
Bothaville Boers cutting the Wire, 299
Erection of, by the British, 262
Lindley-Kroonstad Line of Blockhouses--Escape of Boers, 287
Palmietfontein, Boers breaking through Line, 289, 290

Witkopjes Rheboksfontein Engagement, 135, 136

Witwatersrand, Cession to the British--Proposals of the Vereeniging
Conference, 350, 351, 360, 361, 363, 364

Wolfaard Brothers--Wounded by Lyddite Shell at Magersfontein, 25

Wolmarans, Daniel--Member of Boer Deputation to Europe (1900), 53, 54

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