by Allan Gordon | Nov 25, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
After the Battle of Belmont (23 November 1899), the British troops spent the night in camp whilst the Royal Engineers repaired the railway line. On the afternoon of 24 November 1899, Methuen’s force continued north towards the besieged town of Kimberley, marching...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 23, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
Belmont was a little village in the Northern Cape, about 80 km south of Kimberley. The Battle of Belmont was an engagement where the British under Lord Methuen assaulted a Boer position on Belmont kopje on the way to relieving Kimberley. The Boers were led by...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 22, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
Dewetsdorp is a town in the Free State, 75 km south west of Bloemfontein. From April to November 1900 the British occupied the town. However, on 19 November the town was invested by Boer commandos under General de Wet. On 21 November the Boers overpowered a British...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 21, 2020 | Anniversaries, Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
James Barry Munnick Hertzog died on 21 November 1942 at the age of 76. He was a Boer General during the South African War (1899-1902) who became Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1924 to 1939. Throughout his life he encouraged the development of...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 20, 2020 | Anniversaries, Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-General Henry Mcleod Leslie Rundle died on 20 November 1934 aged 78. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1876 and saw service in South Africa in the Zulu War in 1879 and in the First Boer War of 1881. He landed in Cape Town in March 1900 and...
