Appointment as Public Prosecutor of Orange Free
State, 198

Preeij, Vice-Commandant Ignatius du, killed near Bethlehem, 194, 195

Presidency of Orange Free State--
Expiration of President Steyn's term of office--Difficulties in the
way of an Election, Action of the Doornberg War Council, 197, 198
Resignation of President Steyn, 411
Rhodes, Mr., proposed as Candidate, 198

Pretoria--
Capture by British, 92
Panic ensuing among Transvaalers, 93
Peace Negotiations--Conference between Commission of National
Representatives and Lords Kitchener and Milner (May 19-28,
1902), 320, 365

Pretorius, Willem--
Storming of British Schanze on Orange River, 204, 205
Tribute to, 271, 272
Veldtcornet, Nomination as, 205, 206

Prinsloo, Commandant Michal--
Bethlehem Engagement, 194, 195
Elandsfontein Exploit, 119, 120
Liebenbergsvlei Engagement, 284
Springhaansnek, Covering Commander-in-Chief de Wet's Passage of
Blockhouse Lines at, 187, 188
Train captured and burned by, 152, 153
Vice-Commander-in-Chief of Bethlehem and Ficksburg Sub-districts,
Appointment, 227, 228

Prinsloo, Mr. Marthinus--
Assistant Commander-in-Chief, Irregular Election as, 126
Commandant of Winburg District, 6, 7
Commander-in-Chief of Orange Free State, Election, 6, 7
Natal Campaign, Preliminary Arrangements, 7, 8
Resignation of Post as Commander-in-Chief in the Drakensberg, 117
Surrender at Naauwpoort, 85
Letter to Commander-in-Chief de Wet announcing Surrender and
Commander-in-Chief de Wet's Reply, 136, 137
News brought to Commander-in-Chief de Wet, 135, 136, 137, 138
Suspicious Circumstances of Surrender, 127

Prinsloo's, Veldtcornet, Burghers, Capture of, 286

Prisoners--Boer Prisoners--
Bank Notes of the South African Republic, Opportunity of sending in
for Payment, 386, 387
Ceylon--Prisoners taken with General Prinsloo sent to Ceylon, 156
Merwe, Commandant, and men--Capture on "Majuba Day," 296, 297
Number taken by the British, Frederiksstad, 40, 46, 170, 171, 264, 265
Total Number (35,000) in the Hands of the British in 1901, 256, 257
Taljaart's and Prinsloo's Veldtcornets, Burghers, Capture of, 286
British Prisoners--
Boer Inability to keep their Prisoners, 227, 228, 426, 427
Clothing taken by the Boers, 233
Numbers taken, 16, 23, 66, 67, 69, 70, 76, 102, 105, 106, 112, 113,
163, 178, 179, 185, 186, 194, 195, 202