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the face of such heavy fire power. However, although Kimberley was relieved, the cavalry was
reduced from 8,000 to 4,200 horses in that operation alone and suffered further losses in the
subsequent action to cut the Boers off at Paardeberg. As a result the British could not take the
opportunity to surround the mass of remaining Boers at Poplar Grove because the surviving horses
were capable of no more than a trot.
The use of the charge by mounted Boers was successful at Vlakfontein in May 1901 and Blood
River Poort in September 1901, but failed at Bakenlaagte in October and at Rooiwal in April 1902.
Although the cavalry in the First World War on the Western Front was to prove useless, the
great success of the Palestine campaign of 1917–18 demonstrated that the horse remained a force in
war longer than many care to admit.
See also:
Bakenlaagte, Battle of; Blood River Poort, Action at; Kimberley, Relief of; Paardeberg, Battle
of; Poplar Grove, Battle of; Rooiwal, Battle of; Vlakfontein, Battle of.
Reference:
Badsey, Stephen, “Mounted Combat in the Second Boer War”, Sandhurst Journal of Military
Studies,Issue 2, 1991.
Howick
A town on the railway north of Pietermaritzburg, Natal, where there was a military hospital and a
concentration camp for whites.
Hunter, Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald,
1856–1936
Hunter saw service in Egypt between 1884 and 1886 and was intended to become Chief of Staff to
the British Commander-in-Chief, Sir Redvers Buller, but instead was besieged at Ladysmith. He led
the attack on Gun Hill on 7 December. After the relief of Ladysmith he was given command of the
10th Division with the local rank of Lieutenant-general. As the officer commanding in the eastern
Orange Free State, he accepted the surrender of Assistant Chief-commandant Marthinus Prinsloo in
the Brandwater Basin in July 1900.
See also:
Brandwater Basin, Surrender at; Ladysmith, 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).
Hutton, Major-General E. T. H.
Hutton joined the King’s Royal Rifles in 1867 when he was nineteen years old and served in Zululand
in 1879 and in the First Boer War. He commanded the Mounted Infantry at Aldershot from 1888–92
and then went to New South Wales in Australia to organise the military forces there. He became
General Officer Commanding the Canadian Dominion Militia in 1898. In March 1900 he
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