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who spared his life. He was summoned from India to assume command of the Highland Brigade
after the death of Major-general Wauchope at the Battle of Magersfontein. He led his brigade at the
Battles of Paardeberg, Sannaspos and in the Brandwater Basin. He left for Ceylon in December 1900.
See also:
Brandwater Basin, Surrender at; Koedoesberg Drift, Battle of; Paardeberg, Battle of; Sannaspos,
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).
Machadodorp
A town on the Delagoa Bay Railway east of Pretoria, Machadodorp was the seat of the government of
the South African Republic (the Transvaal) from 5 June to 27 August 1900. It then became a British
base. It was attacked without success by Boer commandos under Assistant Commandant-generals B.
J. Viljoen and Tobias Smuts on 7 January 1901.
See also:
Bergendal, Battle of.
Reference:
Jones, Huw M. and Meurig G. M. Jones, A Gazetteer of the Second Anglo-Boer War (Milton Keynes,
The Military Press, 1999).
Mafeking, Siege of,
14 October 1899–17 May 1900
Mafeking was a British township from which the Bechuanaland Protectorate was administered,
located on the railway between Cape Colony and Southern Rhodesia, a few miles from the border
with the South African Republic (Transvaal). Its siege was of immense interest in Britain and went
down in history as an example of outstanding British heroism. The events here were, in fact, of small
military significance and the British success owed far more to the black African participation than the
self-promoting and alleged hero of the affair, Colonel R. S. S. Baden-Powell, cared to admit.
However, Baden-Powell was not the ogre that later commentators portray.
In 1899 Mafeking had a population of some 1,500 whites and the adjacent “stadt” or “native”
township of Mafikeng was home to about 5,000 black Africans of the Baralong people. BadenPowell had been organising forces in the northern Cape just before the war and when the railway line
was cut at Kraaipan, south of the town, forces there comprised the Protectorate Regiment under
Colonel C. B. Vyvyan and some police, about 700 men, to whom were added about 300 civilians as
the Town Guard. To supplement them about 750 Baralong, Mfengu and others from the black refugees
were recruited. The latter were known as the Black Watch. The only artillery was a pair of 7-pounder
guns. Supplies had been guaranteed
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