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May 31st 12 years 11 months ago #3525

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1900 - Surrender of 500 Irish Yeomanry near Lindley. Capture of Johannesburg.
1902 - Conditions of surrender signed.
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The headlines from the Leeds Mercury on 31st May 1900:

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Good morning David,
A most impressive headline, doubtless, the good folk in Leeds thought the war was all over, but it would not take them very long to realize that, it was, in fact "all over" the whole of South Africa.
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