81
Discontinuance of Struggle proposed--Commander-in-Chief de Wet's
Reception of Proposal, 130
Lindley Garrison, Capture of, 92
Sanna's Post Engagement, Share in, 64
Swartbooiskop, Guarding after Fight at Nicholson's Nek, 17

De Wet, Jacobus, Capture of, 296, 297

De Wet, Johannes--Death near Smithfield, 181

De Wet, Veldtcornet--Wounded during Retreat from Dewetsdorp, 181

Debtors, Protection of, against Creditors for Six Months after the
War--Peace Negotiations at Pretoria (May, 1902), 387

Declaration of War by South African Republic (_see_ Ultimatum)

Deputation to European Powers to ask for Intervention (1900)--Departure
from Delagoa Bay, 53, 54
Encouragement to continue Struggle, 407
England's Refusal to permit Return of Deputation, 409, 412, 413
European Governments unwilling to receive, 415, 416
Failure of, 355, 356
Object of, 54
Silence of, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 407

Delagoa Bay Harbour, Forbidden to Boers by Portuguese Government, 53,
_note_ 54

Destitution caused by the War, 321, 322
Appointment of Committee to Collect and Administer Relief Funds, 428

Devastation by the British--War against Boer Property, 192
Crops destroyed, Corn burnt, etc., _note_ 83
Farm-burning and Waggons (_see_ those titles)
Male Attire, Burning of, 221, 222

Dewetsdorp, Occupation by British, 71
Storming by Commander-in-Chief de Wet's Forces, 174-179

Diederiks of Boshof, Commandant, 24

Discipline of Boer Forces--Imperfect Discipline, 7, 8, 9, 57
Failure to remove Cattle along Railway Line, 111
Roodewal, Commander-in-Chief de Wet's Difficulties in carrying away
Booty, 103, 104
Sanna's Post, irritating Results at, 67
Stricter Discipline, Results of, 61
Taljaart's and Prinsloo's, Veldtcornets, Burghers "preferred to go
their own way," 286
Waggon Difficulty, 120, 121
Harrismith Burghers' Refusal to part with their Waggons at
Spitskopje, 161-163

Doornberg, War Council at--Decision as to Presidential Election, 197

Doornspruit--Line near crossed by Commander-in-Chief de Wet, Capture of
Train, Ammunition, etc., 132

Drakensberg Range--
Boundary between Boer and British Territory in 1899, 7, 8
Passes, Occupation by Orange Free State Commandos, 7, 8

Drive Tactics of British--
Bethlehem-Lindley to Frankfort-Vrede Line--Cordon of Sixty Thousand
Men, 290-296
Boer Forces caught between Cordon of Troops and Va