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Random House Struik presents: FIELD GUIDE TO THE BATTLEFIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA by Nicki Von der Heyde.

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28 November 1899 The Battle of Modder River results in casualties for both Boer and Brit. De la Rey’s son is mortally wounded.

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12 Oct 1899 The first shots of the Anglo Boer War are fired at Kraaipan in North West Province.

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20 June 1900 General Buller makes slow progress from Natal to fight the Boers in the Transvaal. during the #angloboerwar

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22 April 1819 Fledgling town Grahamstown is attacked by 10 000 Xhosa warriors. British garrison survives thanks only to artillery. Fighting continues.

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13 April 1900 Boer commandos under Gen Christiaan de Wet launch a night attack on colonial troops in besieged Wepener.

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Cycle maintenance at Dunelm guest farm - Clarens ABW site, Free State - South Africa. @cwgc

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12 April 1900 President Paul Kruger sends his grandson, Cdt Sarel Eloff, to Mafeking to end the siege. Eloff's attempt fails and Mafeking remains under siege.

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5 April 1902 General Jan Smuts’s commandos begin the siege of the mining town of O’Kiep in the northern Cape.

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5 April 1902 General Jan Smuts’s commandos begin the siege of the mining town of O’Kiep in the northern Cape.

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1 April 1879 The Battle of Gingingdlovu is fought as the British relief column approaches besieged Eshowe #AngloZuluWar

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29 March 1879 The Battle of Khambula is fought between British and Zulu in Northern Natal. British army is victorious.

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28 March 1879 @Britishbattles British army defeated on Hlobane Mountain by abQulusi and Zulu warriors #AngloZuluWar

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25 Jan 1900 Armistice declared on Spioenkop Boers and Brits bury dead on Spioenkop. Winston Churchill, Louis Botha and Mohandas Ghandi were all there.

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24 January 1900. The Battle of Spioenkop rages all day. Hundreds of casualties on both sides end in a British withdrawal. https://t.co/dkcL8nCqX4

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@bcerha1914 The white cairns each cover any number of bodies. They were only buried months after the battle and by that time were mostly unrecognizable.

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22 Jan 1879. The battle of Isandlwana is fought and won by the Zulus. 1320 British soldiers killed

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Some clips of the Queen presenting new Colours to the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the @GrenadierGds at Buckingham Palace in 1953.

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6 Jan 1900 Massive battle Platrand in Ladysmith sees Boer attempt to take the town repulsed with heavy losses on both sides.