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Villebois-Mareuil thought that Boshof was occupied by some 200 to 300 British and, with his
force of 150 men, persisted in advancing even when the Boers told him that many times that number of
British soldiers were in the town. In fact a force under Lord Methuen had moved up from Kimberley
and the Count found himself and his men seriously outnumbered. When some 750 men of the Imperial
Yeomanry, Kimberley Mounted Corps and 4th Battery, Royal Field Artillery came across the
commando, instead of prudently retreating, Villebois-Mareuil took up positions on two kopjes, his
Frenchmen on one, the Boers on the other. The battle lasted for three hours, during which the Boers
surrendered and the French defiantly fought on. The Count was killed by shellfire as the British were
making their final attack with bayonets.
See also:
Abraham’s Kraal, Battle of; French volunteers; Villebois-Mareuil, Colonel Count Georges de.
Reference:
d’Etchegoyen, Olivier, Ten Months in the Field with the Boers (London, William Heinemann, 1901);
Jones, Huw M., and Meurig G. M. Jones, A Gazetteer of the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899–
1902 (Milton Keynes, The Military Press, 1999); McNab, Roy, The French Colonel (Oxford,
Oxford University Press, 1975).
Bos-Veldt
Bush-veldt, bush country covered with thin vegetation on the high plains.
Botha, Assistant Commandant-General Christiaan,
1864–1902
Christiaan Botha was the brother of Louis Botha and in 1899 was appointed Commander of the
Swaziland Police. He was in command of the Boer forces who intended to resist the British advance
at Langs Nek, where the Boers had won a famous victory in 1881 in the First Boer War. On 2 June
1900 Christiaan held discussions with General Sir Redvers Buller to explore the possibilities of
peace, but despite a three-day armistice these overtures came to nothing. Buller outflanked the Boer
position with an attack on Botha’s Pass and Alleman Nek, and no engagement took place at Langs
Nek. The Boers vacated Langs Nek on 11 June, after blowing up the railway tunnel. Soon after the
war Botha died of peritonitis.
See also:
Botha’s Pass, Action at.
Reference:
Jones, Huw M., and Meurig G. M. Jones, A Gazetteer of the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902
(Milton Keynes, The Military Press, 1999).
Botha, Commandant-General Louis,
1862–1919
Louis Botha entered the war in 1899 as an ordinary burgher but rose swiftly to become one of the
greatest Boer commanders. He held the British general Sir Redvers Buller on the Tugela River for
nearly three months by making good use of the terrain and
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