2-710-837 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Surrender of General Cronje to Lord Roberts at Paardeberg - A Despatch Arrives from the Laager', 27 February 1900, (1901). The Boer general Piet Cronje (1835-1911) surrendered to Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts (1832-1914), the British commander-in-chief in South Africa, after the Battle of Paardeberg in 1899. After a photograph by Perceval Landon, war correspondent of "The Times". From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. IV. - To Lord Roberts's Reign in Pall Mall", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]