Koos de la Rey (Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey) (22 October 1847 - 15 September 1914) was a Boer general during the Second Boer War and is widely regarded as being one of the greatest military leaders during that conflict. He is generally regarded as the most powerful and unyielding of the Boer generals during the Second Boer War and as one of the leading figures of Afrikaner nationalism. As a guerrilla, his tactics proved extremely successful. Wikipedia
Thereupon I beheld General Jacobus De la Rey returning to his Lichtenburg home without a hat on his head, and he was closely followed by a carriage full of flowers. www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/nlisa10.txt
The song, De La Rey, has swept into rugby matches and pubs where Afrikaners belt out its plea for the old Boer general to come back and lead. www.buzzle.com/articles/128725.html
The popular and controversial song about the Anglo-Boer War, that has caused a public outcry in South Africa.As the British tried to do a hundred years ago, ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAhHWpqPz9A
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Koos de la Rey. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koos_de_la_Rey
