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See also:
Mafeking, Siege of; Olifant’s Nek; Documents: The Hunt for De Wet by F. Everett.
Reference:
Marix Evans, Martin, The Boer War: South Africa 1899–1902 (Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 1999);
Wallace, R. L., The Australians at the Boer War (Canberra, The Australian War Memorial and
The Australian Government Publishing Service, 1976).
Eloff, Commandant Sarel J.,
1870–1944
Sarel Eloff was a grandson of President Kruger of the Transvaal, and second in command to Vechtgeneral J. P. Snyman at the siege of Mafeking. On 12 May 1900 Eloff led an attack on Mafeking
which broke into the town through Mafikeng, the black African township immediately to the west of
the European area. The Boers occupied the British South Africa Police fort and held its occupants,
including Lieutenant-colonel C. O. Hore and Angus Hamilton, the Timesnewspaper correspondent,
prisoner throughout the day. Thanks to the excellent telephone communication system established by
Baden-Powell, the incursion was repulsed elsewhere, largely by the black Africans, the Baralong,
with nine Boers killed or wounded and twenty-five taken prisoner. Eloff remained steadfast and
courteous, awaiting support from Snyman which never came. As the day faded he was forced to
recognise the hopelessness of his position and he surrendered.
See also:
Mafeking, Siege of.
Reference:
Jeal, Tim, Baden-Powell (London, Hutchinson, 1989); Marix Evans, Martin, The Boer War: South
Africa 1899–1902 (Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 1999).
Enslin, Battle of,
25 November 1899
See Graspan, Battle of.
Erasmus, Assistant Commandant-General D. J. E. “Maroola”
Born in 1845, Maroola Erasmus got his nickname from having directed operations from behind a
maroola tree in a campaign against black Africans in northern Transvaal. He and his brother were,
according to Deneys Reitz, “. . .tall, swarthy men, clad in black claw-hammer coats, and semitop hats,
trimmed with crêpe, a style of dress and headgear affected by so many Boer officers as virtually to
amount to insignia of rank”.
Maroola served in the First Boer War at Bronkhorstspruit and was promoted to commandant at
the siege of Pretoria. He was involved in the defeat of the Jameson Raid in 1895–96. At the Battle of
Talana on 20 October 1899 he sat out the fight on Impate Hill and was present at the siege of
Ladysmith. He operated around Pretoria during the guerrilla phase of the war and was captured in
January 1902 and sent to St Helena.
See also:
Ladysmith, Siege of; Talana, Battle of.
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