The irony was that General Louis Botha had around 32,000 troops to counter the rebels and of the 32,000 troops about 20,000 of them were Afrikaners.
諷刺的是，路易斯·博塔將軍擁有大約32,000名士兵來對付叛亂分子，但其中約有20,000名士兵是阿非利卡人。