A proposal for a final settlement was drawn up, which, with certain alterations insisted on by the Colonial Office, was presented by Lord Kitchener as his ultimatum, to be accepted within three days by the Vereeniging Convention. Botha and his colleagues returned to Vereeniging and laid it before the delegates. Steyn refused to entertain it and immediately resigned his titular office of President of the Orange Free State; De Wet, implacable almost to the last, protested against its terms. The hopelessness of the Boer cause in South Africa was, however, manifest. Even De Wet yielded, and voted with the majority in favour of accepting the British terms of peace. On May 31, 1902, the Treaty of Vereeniging brought to an end the War of 960 days. FINIS COMMANDERS OF DIVISIONS AND BRIGADES, OCTOBER 1899-JUNE 1901 CAVALRY. DIVISION--French. BRIGADES. 1 Babington, Porter, Gordon 1 (Natal) Burn-Murdoch 2 Broadwood 2 (Natal) Brocklehurst 3 Gordon, Little 3 (Mounted Brigade, Natal) 4 Dickson Dundonald MOUNTED INFANTRY BRIGADES----Alderson, Le Gallais, Martyr, Ridley, Hutton INFANTRY. DIVISIONS. I Methuen 5 (Irish) Hart II Clery, Lyttelton, Clery 6 (Fusilier) Barton III Gatacre, Chermside 7 I. Hamilton, W. Kitchener IV White (troops in Ladysmith), 8 Howard Lyttelton 9 Featherstonehaugh, Pole- V Warren, Hildyard Carew, C. Douglas VI Kelly-Kenny 10 Talbot Coke VII Tucker 11 (Lancashire) Woodgate, VIII Rundle Wynne, W. Kitchener, IX Colvile Wynne X Hunter 12 Clements XI Pole-Carew 13 C. Knox Colonial: Brabant 14 Chermside, Maxwell 15 Wavell BRIGADES. 16 B. Campbell 17 Boyes 1 (Guards) Cplvile, Pole- 18 Stephenson Carew, Inigo Jones 19 Smith Dorrien 2 Hildyard, E. Hamilton 20 Paget 3 (Highland) Wauchope, 21 B. Hamilton MacDonald 22 Allen 4 Lyttelton, Norcott, Cooper 23 W. Knox INDEX OF PERSONS AND PLACES (It has not been thought necessary to include in the Index names of towns or of physical features which constantly occur in, or are not material to the narrative; and incidental or unimportant references and allusions have also been generally omitted.) Abon's Dam, 56, 165 Abraham's Kraal, 187-190 Acton Holmes, 99, 100 Airlie, Lieutenant-Colonel the Earl of, 244 Alberts, 357 Alderson, Brigadier-General E.A.H., 202, 203 America Siding, 233 Amersfort, 272 Amphlett, Major C.G., 198-200