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Seaforths and the adjustment of the latter’s position to meet the threat was interpreted by others
as the start of a British withdrawal, though how they thought they could do that under fire is hard to
understand. As they started to move back Boer fire intensified, the movement quickened and soon
became a flight. The British had endured hours under a roasting sun and under Boer fire and could do
no more. The Boers made no attempt to exploit the opportunity and the Scots Guards plugged the gap
in the face of the second concentrated Boer artillery fire of the day, the first having been Major
Albrecht’s bombardment of Moss Drift to prevent a flanking movement by the British. As evening
approached some Boers shouted to the Highlanders that the wounded were free to go, which they did,
without further harm.
The next day the Boers were still there, as were the British guns and their protecting troops.
Cronjé proposed a truce to collect the wounded and bury the dead which lasted until noon, when the
last of the British withdrew. Methuen’s force had suffered some 239 men killed, of whom 202 were
Highlanders, 663 wounded (including 496 Highlanders) and 75 taken prisoner. On the Boer side, the
best estimates suggest 87 killed, 149 wounded and 18 taken prisoner. The British settled in on the
Modder and the Boers set about enhancing their positions at Magersfontein. They were to stay there
until, fearing envelopment by Lord Roberts’s army in February 1900, they moved east towards
Paardeberg.
See also:
Belmont, Battle of; Colenso, Battle of; Graspan, Battle of; Kimberley, Siege of; Modder River,
Battle of; Paardeberg, Battle of; Rifles; Stormberg, Battle of; Trenches.
Reference:
Baker, Anthony, Battles and Battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 (Milton Keynes, The
Military Press, 1999); Carver, Michael, The NAM Book of the Boer War (London, Sidgwick &
Jackson, 1999); Duxbury, G. R., The Battle of Magersfontein (Kimberley, McGregor Museum,
1997); Marix Evans, Martin, The Boer War, South Africa 1899–1902 (Oxford, Osprey
Publishing, 1999).
Majuba Hill, Battle of,
27 February 1881
The Boer victory at Majuba, the Hill of Doves, in the First Boer War brought that conflict to a swift
and satisfactory end for the citizens of the South African Republic (Transvaal). This success was
what they sought to repeat when they invaded Natal, passing that battlefield, in October 1899.
The First War Of Independence, as it became known to Afrikaners, was precipitated by matters
of taxation which brought to a head the question of the legitimacy of the British annexation of 1877
and the undertakings given at that time. The British responded to Boer attacks in the Transvaal by
sending forces to Natal and operations in the north of the British colony commenced under Majorgeneral Sir George Pomeroy-Colley. The war concluded with the defeat of a British force of some
400 men which had occupied the mountain to the west of the pass, Langs Nek, between Natal and the
Transvaal to the north. They were
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