Australia's Foreign Wars: Origins, Costs, Future?!


Jan Smuts


Jan Smuts was 28 when this photo was taken in 1899. This 'officially' made him two years too young to be the State Attorney of Transvaal Republic. He would also find that he would make a good soldier.


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