Frederick “Fritz” Joubert Duquesne (; 21 September 1877 – 24 May 1956), sometimes Du Quesne, was a South African Boer soldier, prisoner of war, big game hunter, journalist, war correspondent, stockbroker, saboteur, spy, and adventurer whose hatred for the British (due to their treatment of Boer women and children) caused him to volunteer to spy for Germany during both World Wars. As a Boer spy he was known as the "Black Panther", but he is also known as "the man who killed Kitchener", since he claimed to have sabotaged and sunk HMS Hampshire, on which Lord Kitchener was en route to Russia in 1916, although forensics of the ship do not support this claim.
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| - Frederick “Fritz” Joubert Duquesne (; 21 September 1877 – 24 May 1956), sometimes Du Quesne, was a South African Boer soldier, prisoner of war, big game hunter, journalist, war correspondent, stockbroker, saboteur, spy, and adventurer whose hatred for the British (due to their treatment of Boer women and children) caused him to volunteer to spy for Germany during both World Wars. As a Boer spy he was known as the "Black Panther", but he is also known as "the man who killed Kitchener", since he claimed to have sabotaged and sunk HMS Hampshire, on which Lord Kitchener was en route to Russia in 1916, although forensics of the ship do not support this claim.
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| - The Black Panther;
- The man who killed Kitchener;
- Aliases: Captain Claude Stoughton; Frederick Fredericks; Boris Zakrevsky ; Major Frederick Craven; George Fordham; Piet Niacud; Colonel Beza;
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| - Frederick “Fritz” Joubert Duquesne
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| - Captain Duquesne, Boer Army picture. ca. 1900
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- — Sinking of 20 British ships in South America, including the Tennyson
- — Assassination of Lord Kitchener
- — Espionage in United States
- — Battle of Bergendal
- — Battle of Colenso
- — Plot to sabotage Cape Town
- — Siege of Ladysmith
- — Sinking of the HMS Hampshire
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| - commando; war correspondent; journalist
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| - —Frederick Russell Burnham, DSO, Chief of Scouts, British Army
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| - He was one of the craftiest men I ever met. He had something of a genius of the Apache for avoiding a combat except in his own terms; yet he would be the last man I should choose to meet in a dark room for a finish fight armed only with knives. Next to Theron I believe Duquesne the greatest scout the Boers produced.
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| - Frederick “Fritz” Joubert Duquesne (; 21 September 1877 – 24 May 1956), sometimes Du Quesne, was a South African Boer soldier, prisoner of war, big game hunter, journalist, war correspondent, stockbroker, saboteur, spy, and adventurer whose hatred for the British (due to their treatment of Boer women and children) caused him to volunteer to spy for Germany during both World Wars. As a Boer spy he was known as the "Black Panther", but he is also known as "the man who killed Kitchener", since he claimed to have sabotaged and sunk HMS Hampshire, on which Lord Kitchener was en route to Russia in 1916, although forensics of the ship do not support this claim. As a German spy, he went by the code name DUNN. In 1942, he and 32 other members of the Duquesne Spy Ring were convicted in the largest espionage conviction in the history of the United States.
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