None of the foreigners who served in the Boer army received any compensation.
In fact, no such uprising took place, even in the early days of the war when Boer armies had advanced across the Orange.
The train steamed into the advancing Boer army, was fired upon, tried to escape, found the rails blocked behind it, and upset.
Thirty-five thousand men with sixty guns were gathered round the little Boer army.
The cavalry was not yet in its place when the Boer army streamed off between the kopjes.
This force, less than a hundred in number, gained a kopje which overlooked a portion of the Boer army.
Discipline was low and individualism high in the Boer army.
The loss of 2000 horses and 50,000 cartridges meant as much as that of the men to the Boer army.
He gambled on being able to strike a knock-out blow against the Boer armies in a "set-piece" action.
He described his impressions of the Boer army when he first saw it, as a recently taken captive: