Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Cronjé ya kasance mai tsinkaye kuma bai ga darajar a cikin yakin basasa ba. An ci shi a yakin Paardeberg.
inda ya mika wuya tare da 4,150 na kwamandojinsa a ranar 27 ga Fabrairu, 1900, bayan sojojin Lord Roberts sun kewaye shi. Kwamandan jami'in na 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, Lieutenant Colonel Eyre Crabbe, ya yi mamakin ganin cewa Cronjé ya kasance tare da matarsa a kan yakin.