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The Battle of Rooiwal was an engagement of the Second Boer War. It took place on 11 April 1902 and resulted in a victory by a British force commanded by Colonel Robert Kekewich over a Boer commando led by General Ferdinandus Jacobus Potgieter and General Jan Kemp Die Slag van Rooiwal was 'n stryd tydens die Anglo-Boere Oorlog. Dit het op 11 April 1902 plaasgevind en het gelei tot 'n oorwinnin...
Battle of Holkranz - 6 May 1902 Called 'the foullest deed of the war' by Louis Botha On the 6th of May 1902 when the Great War of 1899-1902 (between the Boers and British) was nearly at an end, a small commando of 73 Boers was unexpectedly attacked during the night by a band of armed Zulus and murdered at Holkrantz, near Vryheid. On that mournful and unforgettable day, fifty six Transvaale...
18 January 1902 ==Commandant Gideon Scheepers, Boer scout and commanding officer during the Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War) was executed by a firing squad beside an open grave in the veld near Graaff-Reinet. He was captured in October 1901 by a British column and found guilty by a British military court on charges of murder, arson and demolishing of trains. Scheepers admitted during h...
Battle of Rooilaagte - 25 November 1899Lord Methuen Generaal PrinslooGnl. De La ReyGnl. Piet Cronje ____________________Boers fall back on Rooilaagte—De la Rey assumes real command—Boers repulse charge of naval Brigade—Contrast between British and Boer treatment of prisoners—Cronje joins De la Rey—Sketch of General Cronje—Boer position at Modder River—Repulse of British Guardsmen—Ineffectivenes...
Battle of Spion Kop - 23 January 1900 to 24 January 1900 The Battle of Spion Kop was a military engagement between British forces and two Boer Republics—the South African Republic and the Orange Free State—during the campaign by the British to relieve the besieged city Ladysmith during the initial months of the Second Boer War.Fought over 2 days -23 January and 24 January 1902 General Sir Redve...