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round shot which is thrown forward at the enemy by a charge in the base of the shell.
See also:
Artillery, Boer; Artillery, British; Artillery Shells.
Sjambok
A whip. Intended for use in driving livestock, it was also used on people. Chief-commandant
Christiaan De Wet was liberal in his use of the sjambok to emphasise his orders as well as making
use of it to inflict formal punishment. Whipping was not an unusual punishment for agterryers,black
African servants, or for any other black Africans a Boer might deem to be at fault.
See also:
Agterryer; Boer Forces, Discipline.
Reference:
Pretorius, Fransjohan, Life on Commando during the Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 (Cape Town,
Human & Rousseau, 1999).
Slingersfontein, Action at,
15 January 1900
On 9 January 1900 a British force under Colonel T. C. Porter took position at Slingersfontein, a farm
some nine miles (15km) south-east of Colesberg in Cape Colony as part of a move to repossess
territory from the Boers. The Boers, under Vecht-general Koos De la Rey, attacked New Zealand Hill
on 15 January, taking the positions of the 1st The Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment and
pressing hard upon those of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles. The New Zealanders distinguished
themselves in throwing back the assault.
See also:
De la Rey, Assistant Commandant-general Jacobus Herculaas “Koos”.
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).
Sluit
A drainage ditch, usually dry.
Smith-Dorrien, Major-General H. L.,
1858–1930
Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien joined the 95th Regiment (Sherwood Foresters) in 1876. He served
in the Zulu War in 1879 and was the only man to escape from Isandlwana on foot. He then served in
Egypt and in the Sudan. In February 1900 he assumed command of the 19th Brigade and fought at
Paardeberg, Sannaspos, Lindley and Diamond Hill. He was active throughout the guerrilla phase of
the war. In the First World War he commanded II Corps of the British Expeditionary Force in France,
but was disliked by Field Marshal Sir John French, who disapproved of Smith-Dorrien’s gallant fight
at Le Cateau and finally got rid of him when a withdrawal to better positions at Ypres was suggested
in 1915. Smith-Dorrien resigned and was pre-
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