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==The Three German Forts==
[[Pretoria_Forts#Fort_Schanskop|Fort Schanskop]], [[Pretoria_Forts#Fort_Wonderboompoort|Fort Wonderboompoort]] and [[Pretoria_Forts#Fort_Klapperkop|Fort Klapperkop]] were designed by Von Dewitz
The three forts are pentagonal reinforced, with more fire range possibilities through numerous facets. Attacks from any direction could be warded off by revolving guns on their ramparts. To prevent infantry attacks, loopholes were built into the walls. Trenches, barbed-wire entanglements and fortified rooms were erected as reinforcements.
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===Fort Wonderboompoort===
This fort was completed in September 1897 by Von Dewitz
The fort was armed with a 75 mm Creusot gun ("Long Tom"), a 37 mm Maxim-Nordenfeldt cannon and a hand-cranked Martin-Henry Maxim. Initially eighteen gunners were stationed in the fort, but both men and armaments were gradually withdrawn until only one gunner and no cannons were left on 5 June 1900.
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Fort Klapperkop was armed with a [[155 mm Creusot Long Tom|155mm Creusot gun]] [[155 mm Creusot Long Tom|("Long Tom")]], a 37 mm [[Maxim gun|Maxim-Nordenfeldt cannon]], three Martini-Henry hand-maxims and a 65 mm Krupp Mountain Gun.
In January 1899 The fort was
It is said: "Never a shot in anger was fired from this fort."
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Unlike the other forts, Fort Daspoortrand was built by Leon Grunberg and Sam Leon. It thus differed from the other forts, being hexagonal instead of pentagonal and also markedly bigger. It was completed in November 1898 at a cost of GBP 46,500. Like the other forts, it had electricity, a telephone and running water.
Fort Daspoortrand was initially manned by twenty-five gunners and was
==British occupation of Pretoria==
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