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Long, Colonel C. J.,
1849–1933
Charles Long became a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1870. He served in the Afghan War of
1878–80 and was commander of the Egyptian Artillery at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898.
Colonel Long was appointed to command the artillery in the Natal Field Force at the outbreak of
the war but when he arrived at Estcourt, was switched to Lines of Communication. He was thus the
man in command of the armoured train in which Winston Churchill was travelling when the Boers
ambushed it and took him prisoner. Long had been satisfied to send the train out unescorted.
At the Battle of Colenso he commanded General Sir Redvers Buller’s artillery on the right of the
line. Behaving entirely in accord with the conventions of the day and the tactical manual, he took his
guns well forward and came under devastating fire. He and his men, unwisely holding their ground,
fought gallantly but their casualties were severe and they lost ten 15-pounder guns, for which Buller
removed him from command. Commandant-general Louis Botha, however, commented that in placing
himself between British forces in Colenso Village and the Boers on their right flank, Long had
forestalled a Boer victory. In November 1900 Long commanded a column in the hunt for Christiaan
De Wet. In the First World War he became an inspector of remounts.
See also:
Armoured Train Incident; Colenso, Battle of.
Reference:
Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999).
Lötter, Commandant J. C.
A businessman in Naauwpoort, Cape Colony, before the war, J. C. Lötter led a commando and rode
with Assistant Chief-commandant P. H. Kritzinger. In May 1901 they entered Cape Colony from the
Orange Free State to join Commandant W. D. Fouché. Lötter was wounded at Jackalsfontein, southwest of Cradock, in an encounter with Lieutenant-colonel E. M. S. Crabbe’s column. On 4 September
1901 Lötter’s commando was surprised and attacked by Lieutenant-colonel Henry J. Schobell’s
column and taken after a brisk fight. Lötter was considered a rebel by the British, who declined to
recognise his claim to recently acquired citizenship of the Orange Free State and produced his
registration as a voter in the Colesberg district to support their view. They tried him on eight charges,
including the murder of unarmed black scouts and treason, and he was found guilty on all counts. He
was taken to Middelburg where sentence was pronounced on 11 October and he was hanged the next
day.
See also:
Scheepers, Commandant Gideon J.
Reference:
Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal
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