by Allan Gordon | Feb 27, 2020 | Anniversaries, Deaths, First Anglo Boer War
Major-General George Pomeroy Colley was killed on 27 February 1881 at Majuba Hill during the final battle of the First Anglo-Boer War. He was 45 years old and in command of the force that had occupied Majuba during the night prior to the battle.
by Allan Gordon | Feb 27, 2020 | Battles, First Anglo Boer War
A day which both the Boers and the British remembered for many years after – for different reasons. Read all about it on our Battles – Majuba page (http://www.battletoursza.com/majuba/).
by Allan Gordon | Feb 27, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
On the morning of 27 February 1900, the British plan was a final assault on a number of hills on the outskirts of Ladysmith. Major-General Barton was to take Pieters Hill, the most north-easterly of the three. Colonel Kitchener was to take the centre Hill...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 27, 2020 | Events, South African War 1899 - 1902
The final day at Paardeberg. On the morning of 27 February 1900 the Boers found the British entrenched ‘on their doorstep’. Having endured heavy bombardments and a number of frontal attacks, and General Cronje realising that he was heavily outnumbered, the white flag...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 26, 2020 | Events, South African War 1899 - 1902
This day saw the final move in the eventual capture of General Cronje at Paardeberg. The British had previously tried frontal assaults on the Boer position with disastrous consequences. On 26 February the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry took the lead in a final...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 25, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
On 25 February 1902, Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson who was in command of a convoy being escorted by units of the Imperial Yeomanry, Northumberland Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers and the South Staffordshires, decided to bivouac on a farm called Yzerspruit. ...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 24, 2020 | Events, South African War 1899 - 1902
Kuilfontein was a farm in the Northern Cape, close to Arundel – between Noupoort and Colesburg. On 24 February 1900, the Boer General, Koos de la Rey occupied the farm but withdrew after a skirmish lasting the whole day. Sergeant J. Firth of the West...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 24, 2020 | Events, South African War 1899 - 1902
In the meantime, down in the Free State the British ‘siege’ on Cronje’s laager was in place. Had the British learnt from the Boers? Roberts had proposed a withdrawal as too many British troops were engaged in the so called ‘siege’. However, to do so would have...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 23, 2020 | Battles
Hart’s Hill was referred to as Terrace Hill before Lieutenant-General Hart attacked the hill. It is also referred to as Inniskilling Hill due to the involvement of that regiment. Following the attack on Wynne’s Hill, General Buller ordered the next hill in the...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 22, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
Having occupied the ring of hills south of Colenso in mid February, Buller’s plans were now to repeat that exercise, but this time north of Colenso. Lieutenant-Colonel Wynne was ordered to take a hill just west of Langverwacht Spruit, known as Green Hill, and the...
