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Pakenham and Tim Jeal. It is admitted that refugee black Africans driven into the town by fear of
the Boers were underfed and that some starved, but it is also said that the Baralong who had always
lived there were properly fed, a strange distinction which hardly absolves Baden-Powell. What is
clear is that the man arouses extreme feelings in many historians and commentators and that opinions
about him should be regarded with caution.
In later life Baden-Powell founded the international Boy Scout movement and his achievement
was recognised with a peerage. He was awarded the Carnegie Peace Prize in 1937 and died in Kenya
in 1941.
See also:
Mafeking, Siege of.
Reference:
Comaroff, J. L., ed., The Boer War Diary of Sol T. Plaatje (Johannesburg, Macmillan, 1973); Jeal,
Tim, Baden-Powell (London, Hutchinson, 1989); Neilly, J. Emerson, Besieged with B-P
(London, C. Arthur Pearson, 1900); Pakenham, Thomas, The Boer War (London, Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, 1979; Abacus, 1992); Warwick, Peter, Black People and the South African War
1899–1902 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983); Willan, Brian, in The South
African War,ed. Peter Warwick (Harlow, Longman, 1980).
Bagration-Mukhransky, Prince Nikolai,
1868–1932
Nikolai Bagration was a Georgian, descended from a royal family. He was in Paris when the war
began and, in spite of total ignorance of the Boers, at once decided to join them. He joined the French
Corps and fought at the Battle of Driefontein, 10 March 1900, and at the Battle of Boshof, 5 April
1900, where he was captured. He was sent to St Helena as a prisoner-of-war.
See also:
Boshof, Battle of; Driefontein, Battle of; Russian Volunteers; Villebois-Mareuil, Colonel Count
Georges de.
Reference:
Davidson, Apollon, and Irina Filatova, The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War (Cape Town, Human
& Rousseau, 1998).
Bakenlaagte, Battle of,
30 October 1901
Of the columns the British had in the field to harry the Boers, that of Colonel G. E. Benson was among
the most efficient. It therefore received the personal attention of the Boer Commandant-general Louis
Botha who ambushed it at the Battle of Bakenlaagte with superior numbers and, when the greater part
of it had retired, fought the rearguard to a standstill. The victorious Boers not only stripped the dead
but also robbed the wounded, actions for which Botha rebuked them forcefully. Benson was
wounded, fought on and eventually died of his wounds on the field, known as Bakenlaagte, although
the battle was actually fought on Onverwacht and Nooitgedacht farms.
Benson’s column, comprised of the 2nd Buffs (East Kents), 3rd and 25th Mounted Infantry, 2nd
Scottish Horse
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