2-710-840 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'General Louis Botha', c1910s, (1919). Portrait of General Louis Botha (1862-1919), Afrikaner soldier and statesman. '...once a gallant foe as Commander-in-Chief of the Boers in the South African War, was Prime Minister of the Transvaal Colony under the new Constitution of 1907, and in 1910 became the first Premier of the Union of South Africa. He took command of the Union Forces of South Africa, operating against the Germans in German South West Africa.' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. III, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919] Portrait of