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and 84th Field Battery, Royal Artillery, was making its way north-west from Bethel, Transvaal,
across rolling country that gave Botha a perfect opportunity for attack. The rearguard was assaulted
by 1,000 Boers under Botha, Vecht-general J. N. H. Grobler and Commandant J. D. Opperman. The
Buffs were overwhelmed and the Boers pushed towards the head of the column until they were held
by a swiftly-constructed defensive position. Here they were held at great cost until the bulk of the
column had escaped. The British had suffered severely with sixty-six British killed and 165
wounded. The account from the Boer viewpoint differs: Gustav Preller reports 238 killed and 120
taken prisoner.
See also:
Benson, Colonel G. E.
Reference:
Baker, Anthony, Battles and Battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 (Milton Keynes, The
Military Press, 1999); Pretorius, Fransjohan, Life on Commando during the Anglo-Boer War
1899–1902 (Cape Town, Human & Rousseau, 1999).
Balloons
Observation balloons, tethered to the ground, were used by the Royal Engineers to make maps and to
observe the effects of shellfire. On 18 November 1899, for example, Captain G. M. Heath, R.E.,
made a map of Boer gun positions around Ladysmith from a balloon and there are Boer reports of
seeing a balloon being flown just before the Battle of Magersfontein. However, their contribution to
the war appears to have been minimal.
Baralong, The
The black African inhabitants of Mafikeng. The town of Mafeking, as it is known to the Europeans,
had what they regarded as an appendage: the “Stadt”, the black African town, more properly known
as Mafikeng, the name used today. This was the home of the Tshidi-Baralong people and a place that
they had defended against Boer attack on five previous occasions. They were armed by the British for
the defence of Mafeking in 1899 and fought with particular vigour when the Boer Commandant Sarel
Eloff and his men broke into the town on 12 May 1900. The Black Watch, as the armed Africans were
known, ejected the majority of the Boers, leaving only a small number in the Police Fort to surrender
to the British at the end of the day. Colonel Baden-Powell later denied having armed the Baralong
and made little of their contribution.
See also:
Baden-Powell, Major-General Robert; Mafeking, Siege of.
Reference:
Marix Evans, Martin, The Boer War: South Africa 1899–1902 (Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 1999);
Willan, Brian, in The South African War,ed. Peter Warwick (Harlow, Longman, 1980).
Barton, Major-General G.
Geoffrey Barton was born in 1844 and entered the British army in 1862 in the
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