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Battle of Groenkop (655 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Tweefontein) on 25 December 1901, Head Commandant Christiaan de Wet's Boer commando surprised and defeated a force of Imperial Yeomanry under the command

Battle of Groenkloof (589 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

British column under Colonel Harry Scobell defeated and captured a small Boer commando led by Commandant Lötter in the Cape Colony during the Second Boer War

Battle of Tweebosch (553 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In the Battle of Tweebosch or De Klipdrift on 7 March 1902, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey defeated a British column under the command of Lieutenant

Laersdrif (132 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

turn was named after a ford (Afrikaans: drif, Dutch: drift) at which a Boer commando laagered during the Mapoch War of 1882; a laager is laer in Afrikaans

Battle of Blood River Poort (542 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Battle of Blood River Poort or Scheeper's Nek on 17 September 1901 a Boer commando led by Louis Botha crushed a British force commanded by Major Hubert

Battle of Bothaville (601 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Doornkraal) on 6 November 1900 was a rare defeat of Christiaan de Wet's Boer commando at the hands of a force of British Mounted Infantry (MI). De Wet was

Bronkhorstspruit (419 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

an important event in the early days of the First Boer War when a Boer Commando ambushed a British army column, 94th Regiment of Foot, near the present

Siege of Rustenburg (576 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

the construction of additional military huts. On 24 December 1880, a Boer Commando of 600 men entered the town and on 27 December, demanded the surrender

Namaqualand 0-4-2ST Pioneer (1,117 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pioneer derailed outside O'okiep after the Boer commando attack on the town

Louwsburg (482 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Game Reserve. Dawid Louw (1850-1927) was a member of Lucas Meijer's boer commando, which in 1884, reacted to Dinuzulu's plea for help against his uncle

Bronkhorst Spruit (342 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was the scene of the action at Bronkhorstspruit, a battle between a Boer commando under the command of Frans Joubert and British troops under Lieutenant-Colonel

Cape Copper Company Medal for the Defence of O'okiep (1,156 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The locomotive Pioneer derailed outside O'okiep after the Boer commando attack on the town

Ingwavuma (788 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Second Boer War in 1899 the settlement was razed to the ground by a Boer commando under the command of Joachim Ferreira. The serving magistrate, B. Colenbrander

Ian Knight (historian) (575 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

Army Museum book of the Zulu war, Pan Books, 2003, ISBN 0-330-48629-2 Boer Commando 1876 - 1902, Osprey publishing, 2004 British fortifications in Zululand

Concordia, South Africa (450 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Concordia The locomotive Pioneer derailed outside Okiep after the Boer commando attack on the town, launched from Concordia on 1 May 1902 Concordia Show

Encephalartos longifolius (396 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

African history for its seeds nearly killed General Smuts and men of a Boer commando in the eastern Cape during the Anglo-Boer War. Colonel Deneys Reitz

Piet Cronjé (702 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

ISSN 0258-2279. OCLC 7211697505. Retrieved 20 July 2021. Knight, Ian (2004). Boer Commando 1876–1902. Osprey Publishing. p. 56. ISBN 9781841766485. Vermeulen,

Battle of Schuinshoogte (640 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

killed in action at the Battle of Majuba Hill. Knight, Ian (2004). Boer Commando 1876–1902. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-648-8. Laband, John

0-4-2 (2,103 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pioneer derailed outside O'okiep after a Boer commando attack

Centurion, South Africa (1,905 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Rooihuiskraal (Afrikaans for "Red House Kraal") took place in 1881 here. A Boer commando under the leadership of D.J. Erasmus Jr defeated Colonel Gildea, or

Battle of Boomplaats (1,300 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

at the Orange River crossing point. Reports came to Smith that the Boer Commando were within 16 km of the river crossing and were being watched by Boer

Durham Artillery Militia (1,986 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

engaged in preventing Boer border raids. In September a 3000-strong Boer Commando under Louis Botha threatened Zululand, and a 51-strong detachment of

Erich Mayer (280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to South Africa, where he worked as a land surveyor. Mayer joined a boer commando during the Anglo Boer War, and sketched local farm where he stayed overnignt

Sekwati (643 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

tensions escalated over time, and in 1852, Hendrik Potgieter led a Boer commando against Chief Sekwati's forces. The Boers laid siege to the Pedi stronghold

Pretoria-Pietersburg railway line (1,287 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a Boer commando under the command of General CF Beyers attacked a train at Tobiasspruit, 8 km north of Naboomspruit. On 10 August 1901, another Boer commando

John Davidson (British Army officer) (1,197 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Damant's Horse, a local cavalry unit, with the objective of disrupting Boer commando units. He was mentioned in despatches and appointed a Companion of the

List of South African politicians (1,095 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Chairman of Constitutional Assembly 1994–97 Deneys Reitz (1882–1944); Boer Commando, soldier (World War I), Cabinet Minister, Deputy Prime Minister (1939–1943)

Battle of Paardeberg (3,199 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Infantry had joined the Queensland Mounted Infantry in dispersing a Boer commando at Sunnyside and Belmont in the Western Cape in January. The account

Tswana people (4,568 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

artillery and long range rifles as well as musket fire. Although it was the Boer Commando led by the Boer Commandant-General Pieter Scholtz and Paul Kruger, as

Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat (1,607 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

companies until Colonel Murray was killed in a night action with a Boer Commando on 19/20 September 1901, after which Fraser took command of the regiment

Colony of Tasmania (4,057 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

cattle at Warmbaths, 60 miles north of Pretoria. They were ambushed by a Boer Commando, but fought exceptionally well. Bisdee and Wylly received their VCs

Sudwala Caves (1,262 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

foiled this attack. Help was sent for and received from a Lydenburg Boer commando, led by one Abel Erasmus. The commando drove off Mswati's regiments

Battle of Spion Kop (4,498 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

story concerns the very real Commandant Louis Wessels, who leads the Boer commando to defeat the British at the battle. Buller erred in appointing Warren

Bernard Lugan (1,844 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

coll. « Vérités et légendes », 1989, 285 p. Rééd. : 1996 The Last Boer Commando: A French Volunteer in the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902, éd. du Rocher

Asymmetric warfare (7,476 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

tactics eventually evolved into today's counterinsurgency tactics. The Boer commando raids deep into the Cape Colony, which were organized and commanded

Johan Fick (1,845 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

defense of Thaba Bosiu. In early August, Fick was joined by another Boer commando under Louw Wepener that had come up from the south. On August 8, Wepener

Saint Helena (15,345 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

of St Helena 15 (Spring 1997): 17–21.Full Paper Knight, Ian (2004). Boer Commando 1876–1902. Osprey Publishing. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-84176-648-5. Clements

Boer foreign volunteers (3,430 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the war the majority of the foreign volunteers were obliged to join a Boer commando. Later they formed their own foreign legions with a high degree of independence

Battle of Magersfontein (5,436 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Battle Press. ISBN 0-89839-285-3. Knight, Ian; Ruggeri, Raffaele (2004). Boer Commando: 1876–1902. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-648-8. Kruger, Rayne

Royal Canadian Regiment (7,170 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

overseas battle at Sunnyside, Cape Colony, on January 1, 1900, defeating a Boer commando in an action led by Australia's Queensland Mounted Infantry. The unit

History of the British 1st Division (1809–1909) (7,061 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

bridges and the railway line as they proceeded. On 5 April, a small Boer commando led by Comte de Villebois-Mareuil was defeated at the Battle of Boshof

2nd Infantry Division (United Kingdom) (13,478 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Amersfoort. Four days later the division took the surrender of a 182-strong Boer commando unit. Along with the rest of the main British force, it advanced farther

Robert Poore (3,723 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

service. In February 1901, he was tasked by Kitchener with forming a Boer commando, the Bushveldt Mounted Rifles. This was made up of surrendered Boer

List of South Africans (9,675 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pretorius, Boer leader and commandant-general (1799–1853) Deneys Reitz, boer commando, deputy Prime Minister and High Commissioner to London (1882–1944) Pixley

List of heritage sites in Free State (68 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

under the command of the Governor of the Cape, Sir Harry Smith, and a Boer Commando led by Gen. Andries Pretorius. The Monument was erected on 16 December

9th (Welsh) Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry (4,151 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

captured waggons, livestock and a few Boers. On 15 August a 400-strong Boer commando attacked the column's transport at Reitvlei and a there were a number