Sir Jacob Louis van Deventer
Sir Jacob Louis van Deventer , 1874?-1922, Boer general. In the South African War he commanded guerrilla forces in the Cape Colony. During World War I he helped suppress a Boer extremist outbreak against the government. Deventer also participated in the campaigns against Germany in South West Africa (1914-15) and in former German East Africa (1917-18).
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