2-716-568 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Transvaal War, 1881: President Brand Making the Declaration of Peace at Laing's Nek, March 24', (1901). Episode during the First Boer War: Johannes Brand (1823-1888), president of the Orange Free State, declares peace at Laing's Nek, a pass through the Drakensberg mountains (South Africa). From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]