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Frans Johan Pretorius, a professor of history at the University of Pretoria on Sunday the route in the Bokfontein area walked by General Chrsitiaan the Act has used one of his most famous escapes crf from the Anglo-Boer War on the Magaliesberg through. General de Wet escaping on August 21, 1900 tackled. "When the Free State commandos by the middle of July 1900 in the Brandwater south of Bethlehem in the Free State were trapped, De Wet 2000 man and President MT Steyn and his government members away. More than 50,000 British soldiers shot him in the next month or pursued submitted in as "the first De Wet hunt" to be known, "said Professor Pretorius said. Eventually De Wet's commando on August 14 at Olifantsnek near Rustenburg over the Magaliesberg escape. crf North of the mountain has spent most of its citizens, the Bush sent with their horses and oxen to rest, while President Steyn with an escort to President Paul Kruger at Falls Below left to state affairs in order. The Act have decided to use a mobile crf horse commando after the State to return to the Free State's war effort to reorganize, because during his absence Marthinus Prinsloo with 4,400 men - half of the Free State forces - in the Brandwater the British surrendered . With 246 riders he left, but at three o'clock crf in the afternoon of August 21 he came to Bokfontein, about 2 km east of Wolhuterskop behind him in a big semicircle against the Magaliesberg trapped - by Kommandonek was Colonel Barter with a British forces stationed; further back was Major Urmston his Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, northeast of him, General Ian Hamilton with a large force prevented the Act to that environment could return before them by the General Wolhuterskop Ridley with 500 mounted infantry its road blocked, and further west was Lord Kitchener with a power of 10 000 men on their way to Wolhuterskop. The Boer general's only recourse was to the Magaliesberg right to cross him. He asked for a black man, Amos: "Right cross for us, can you over there?" "No," said Amos, "it's not possible." Then the Act if there was ever a man there left. "Long ago", says Amos. "Taking it baboons?" Asks the Act. "Yes," said Amos, "they walk there, but not people." Then the Act for its citizens: 'Get up, it's our only way, and that a monkey can over, we can, we must . "one of the men sighed as:" O Red Sea "The Act's answer was:" The children of Israel believed and the Red Sea. Come on. Do you but. It's not the first Red Sea that we do not have, and it will not be the last to be! "And Amos commando on horseback the suidwesklofie be led formed by the mountain on the left and the detached hill on the right . This hill has ensured that the British at their campsite Wolhuterskop not the farmers could see no escape. Amos front and the men near the end of the gully of their horses down south and up the mountain started clambered. Sometimes citizens of the case and under their horses ingegly. It has all gone harder. Near the top they have a dolomietplaat encountered as smooth as ice, where humans and animals even more skidded and stumbled. The dolomietplaat today is partly covered with short grass. As they climbed higher, crf the British camp at Wolhuterskop seen. The citizens were worried crf that Britons with guns would shoot at them. The Act has reassured them that the British at long range guns they had. Although some of the British farmers near the summit saw, Kitchener - who do long-distance guns on him - first at five o'clock in the afternoon at Wolhuterskop arrived shortly before the Farmers across crf the mountain disappeared. Since then the neck known as Dewetsnek. crf On the south side, the Farmers struggled in the dark with their horses against the steep declines to come. That night they left Remhoogte. The next day they went to the Free returned, where De Wet Free State remaining in the field and some of the citizens after the British crf occupation of Bloemfontein to their farms back, organized a guerrilla against the British forces feed. In Pretoria and the British commander in chief, Lord Roberts, New plotted unsuccessfully to outlaw