3 April 1900
General Pieter Arnoldus (Piet) Cronje, commandant-general of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR, also known as Transvaal Republic) and his wife Hester, with about 1 000 Republican prisoners of war, left Cape Town for St Helena as prisoners of war during Anglo-Boer War 2 (1899-1902). Cronje surrendered his commando of 4 000 men to British forces at Paardeberg on 28 February 1900 and was banished to St Helena, an island in the Atlantic Ocean, off the west coast of Africa. The prisoner of war camp on St Helena was one of the numerous British camps situated throughout the world. In this camp, the quarters consisted chiefly of tents and shanties patched together from tin plates, corrugated iron plating and sacking. The ages of prisoners varied between nine and eighty-two years.
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