Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies. ↗

— Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

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Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed. ↗

— Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

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The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply. ↗

— Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

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