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See also:
Magersfontein, Battle of.
Reference:
De Wet, Christiaan, Three Years War (London, Archibald Constable, 1902); Marix Evans, Martin,
The Boer War: South Africa 1899–1902 (Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 1999).
Komatipoort
A railway station on the Delagoa Bay railway line close to the border with Portuguese East Africa
(Mozambique). The retreat of the Boers from the British culminated at Komatipoort on 11 September
1900 when President Paul Kruger left his country. Lieutenant-general R. Pole-Carew led the British
into the Komatipoort unopposed on 24 September, capturing some thirty locomotives and 1,500 trucks
full of supplies.
See also:
Bergendal, Battle of; Railway System.
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).
Koornspruit, Battle of
See Sannaspos, Battle of.
Kop, Kopje
Literally a ‘head’, the term kop means a hill, typically but not Literally a ‘head’, the term kop means a
hill, typically but not exclusively the mesa or flat-topped hills found in the Orange Free State and
Transvaal veldt terrain. The diminutive, kopje or koppie, is used of a small hill.
Kraaipan, Action at,
12–13 October 1899
The small garrison at the station on the Vryburg to Mafeking railway was withdrawn by Colonel
Robert Baden-Powell on 11 October, the day on which the Boer ultimatum ran out. The next day
Vecht-general Koos De la Rey arrived from the east with the Lichtenburg Commando, taking the
station and putting the railway out of commission. On 13 October the first action of the war took place
when De la Rey overcame an armoured train that arrived with twenty-six men of the Mashonaland
Police under Lieutenant R. C. Nesbitt taking two 7-pounder guns up to Mafeking.
See also:
Mafeking, Siege of.
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).
Kraal
Either a cattle enclosure or a black African village.
Krantz
A valley.
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