Smuts drafts the ultimatum that begins the Boer War

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• The Anglo-American Establishment pp. 79-81 · open book

  At the Bloemfontein Conference of 1899 between Kruger and Milner, all of Smuts's advice to the former was in the direction of concessions to Milner, yet it was Smuts who drafted the ultimatum of 9 October, which led to the outbreak of war.

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