by Allan Gordon | Jun 5, 2020 | Anniversaries, South African War 1899 - 1902
Having received an ultimatum on 4 June, General Louis Botha decides to evacuate Pretoria and make a stand with his fighters, north of the City. At 10 am General Roberts entered Pretoria unopposed.
by Allan Gordon | Jun 5, 2020 | Anniversaries, Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
H.H. Kitchener died on 5 June 1916. At the outset of the South African War he was second in command to General Roberts, taking over from Roberts in November 1900. He was present at the battles preceding the Relief of Kimberley, and at Paardeberg where Boer...
by Allan Gordon | Jun 3, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
After the fall of Johannesburg on 29 May 1900, the false truce gave the Boers the chance to get their troops out, together with guns and ammunition. The British, however, weren’t sitting with their arms folded and General Roberts set out along the main Johannesburg –...
by Allan Gordon | Jun 2, 2020 | Anniversaries, Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
On 2 June 1908 General Redvers Buller died at the age of 68. During the Anglo-Zulu War (1879) he was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery under fire at the Battle of Hlobane. At the outbreak of the South African War in 1899 he was sent as...
by Allan Gordon | Jun 2, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
Jamestown is a town in the Eastern Cape which was occupied by Commandant Kritzinger on 2 June 1901. Kritzinger had recently re-entered the Cape and was conducting successful hit and run activities in the area. The action at Jamestown enabled his commando to resupply...
by Allan Gordon | May 31, 2020 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Major-General Edward Brabant was born on this day in 1839. In November 1899 he raised a local Regiment known as Brabant’s Horse to fight in the South African War. His command included the Cape Mounted Rifles, the Kaffrarian Rifles, and the Queenstown...
