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became a major in the Gordon Highlanders in 1880 and served with that regiment in Egypt in
1882, in the Sudan in 1884 and in the Nile Expedition of 1884–85. He became commander of the 17th
Brigade in Lieutanantgeneral Sir Leslie Rundle’s 8th Division in 1900.
Brabant, Major-General Sir Edward,
1839–1914
Edward Yewdale Brabant was about sixty years of age when he raised Brabant’s Horse in 1900. He
had retired as a captain in the Cape Rifles twenty years earlier and entered the Legislative Assembly.
The British Commander-in-Chief, Lord Roberts, was aware of the problems that locally raised troops
experienced when required to serve in regular army units and gave Brabant the job of forming a
division of local volunteers. The two regiments he raised were manned mainly by farmers from the
Eastern Province of Cape Colony and served in the Colonial Division. Within Cape Colony they
distinguished themselves in the defence of the bridge at Aliwal North. They were particularly
disliked by the Boers, who felt that many of these men should have been their allies and comrades
against the British, and it was their presence that led Commandant-general Christiaan De Wet to be
drawn into besieging them at Jammerbergdrif (or Wepener). Brabant was Commandant-general of the
Cape Colonial Forces from 1902 to 1904.
See also:
Jammerbergdrif, Siege of.
Reference:
Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999).
Brandfort, Action at,
3–4 May 1900
Brandfort was the first objective in Lord Roberts’s advance to the Transvaal. The numerical
superiority of the British enabled them to outflank Boer positions, forcing a retreat.
The road and railway running north from Bloemfontein both pass through the town of Brandfort,
which was defended by the Boers – by the Heidelberg Commando and Irish Brigade on kopjes to the
west and by Assistant Commandant-general Koos De la Rey with the Ermelo and Wakkerstroom
Commandos to the east. The task of defending the town from fixed positions was valiantly undertaken
but the threat of envelopment of their flanks by British Mounted Infantry forced the Boers to
withdraw.
In March 1901 a white concentration camp was established near the town and by August of that
year it held nearly 3,500 people.
See also:
Bloemfontein, Advance from; Concentration Camps, White; Vet River, Battle of.
Reference:
Baker, Anthony, Battles & Battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 (Milton Keynes, The
Military Press, 1999).
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