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People who influenced the Anglo-Boer War
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British Military:
German-born British statesman and colonial administrator who was the main agitator for the war against the Boer Republics.
Alfred Milner
(Lord)		 Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in South Africa. Handed over to Kitchener in 1900.
Frederick Roberts
(Lord)		 Commander-in-Chief of British forces and the driving force behind concentration camps and scorched earth policies.
Horatio Kitchener
(Lord)		 Fought in the Battle of Magersfontein. There he was defeated by the Boers on December 11, 1899.
Paul Methuen
(Lord)		 He led a raid launched from Bechuanaland to support the uitlanders uprising in the Transvaal, they were defeated and Jameson was handed over to British authorities to stand trial.
Leander Jameson
(Administrator)
 
Boer Leaders:
Commander-in-chief of the Transvaal Boers, fighting with impressive capability at Colenso and Spion kop. After the fall of Pretoria, he led a concerted guerrilla campaign against the British.
Louis Botha
(Commandant-General)		 Excelled at hit-and-run warfare, he led a raid into the Cape that was to prove one of the most influential military adventures of the 20th Century and had a direct influence on the creation of the British Commandos and all the other special forces which followed. With these practical developments came the development of the military doctrines of deep penetration raids and asymmetric warfare.
Jan Smuts
(General)		 President of the Transvaal Republic who died in exile in Switzerland.
Paul Kruger
(President)		 Regarded as the most powerful and unyielding of the Boer generals during the Anglo-Boer War.
Koos de la Rey
(General)		 Formidable guerrilla leader, sometimes escaping only by the narrowest of margins from the columns which attempted to surround him, and falling upon and annihilating isolated British posts, striking heavily where he could do so and skilfully evading every attempt to bring him to bay.
Christiaan de Wet
(General)
 
Civilians:
One of the "Gold Bugs", who planned, schemed and organised to precipitate a war, based on the Uitlanders' real or imagined grievances.
Barney Barnato
(Mining Magnate)		 With Cecil Rhodes, he financed the unsuccessful Jameson Raid of late 1895 which was intended to trigger a coup in the Transvaal Republic.
Alfred Beit
(Mining Magnate)		 British-born businessman, an ardent believer in colonialism and was the coloniser of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him. Supported the Jameson raid that would lead to the outbreak of both the Second Matabele War and the Anglo-Boer War.
Cecil John Rhodes
(Mining Magnate)		 One of the "Gold Bugs", the syndicate that agitated for war between Britain and the Republics.
Lionel Phillips
(Mining Magnate)		 British welfare campaigner, who is primarily remembered for shedding light on the bad conditions inside the British concentration camps.
Emily Hobhouse
(Humanitarian)
 
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