by Allan Gordon | Feb 16, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
Dronfield is a station just north of Kimberley, on the line to Mafeking. To the east of the station is a ridge – Dronfield Ridge, which was occupied by the Boers at the beginning of the siege of Kimberley. On 24 October 1899, the Boers were driven off the lodge by a...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 14, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
On 12 February 1900 General Buller decided on a new approach to relieve Ladysmith. He would concentrate his efforts on a ring of hills east of Colenso and south of the Tugela River with the objective of taking Hlangwane. The attack of Colonel Dundonald’s cavalry and...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 11, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
Early on the morning of 11 February 1900 a British contingent under Lieutenant-Colonel de Lisle attacked a Boer position on the hills adjacent to the farm Wolvekraal. The Boers, under the command of Kommandants Hertzog and Jacobsz from the Fauriesmith Kommando turned...
by Patrick Armstrong | Feb 8, 2020 | Battles, First Anglo Boer War, On This Day
This battle, also known as the Battle of Ingogo, was fought north of Newcastle, Natal on 8 February 1881, after the Battle of Laing’s Nek. British ox-wagon supply convoys and general communication patrols on the Newcastle-Mount Prospect road were being...
by Patrick Armstrong | Feb 5, 2020 | Battles, On This Day, South African War 1899 - 1902
General Buller was soundly defeated in his first two attempts to relieve the Ladysmith siege; first at Colenso on 15 December 1899 and then at Spioen Kop on 24 January 1900. He incurred over 3 000 casualties and the Boers only a few hundred. Buller’s third...
by Allan Gordon | Jan 30, 2020 | Battles, Events, South African War 1899 - 1902
On 29 January 1901, Captain H.G. Casson, who was camped on the farm Modderfontein in the area of Westonaria, received a large convoy of supplies. The convoy was accompanied by reinforcements from Marshall’s Horse. The farm was in the Gatsrand range of mountains....
