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Francis William Reitz (1844-1934) was a Boer politician at the time of the Second Boer War. He was the president of the Orange Free State from 1889 to 1895. In this time he encouraged closer relations with the Transvaal. He delivered both the Boer ultimatum to the British that started the war and the peace treaty that effectively ended it. His own personal disagreement with the treaty meant he spent the remainder of his life in a self-imposed exile in Holland and later in the United States. He returned to South Africa where he became President of the Senate until 1921, when he retired from public life.
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'Commando' by his son, Deneys Reitz