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rearguard of his force took the correct turning to the north as the rest went west. In any case
dawn found the worn-out British in a defile at Vegkoppies under the hill of Kissieberg which was
occupied by Commandant J. H. Olivier’s Rouxville-Zastron commando. The Northumberlands vainly
attempted to storm the heights and the Irish Rifles secured a position on the hill but Gatacre decided
to withdraw. He left twenty-eight men dead, fifty-one wounded and 634 who were taken as prisoners.
Three months later, on 23 February 1900, the British tried again in the Battle of Schoemanskop
and failed for a second time, losing the commander and six men of the Montmorency Scouts. A week
later, after the defeat of Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg, the Boers pulled out of the Cape and went
north, intending to defend Bloemfontein.
See also:
Paardeberg, Battle of.
Reference:
Carver, Michael, The NAM Book of the Boer War (London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1999); Marix
Evans, Martin, The Boer War: South Africa 1899–1902 (Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 1999);
Oosthuizen, A. V., A Guide to the Battlefields, Graves and Monuments of the Anglo-Boer War
in the North Eastern Cape (Bloemfontein, The War Museum of the Boer Republics, 1998).
Sunnyside, Battle of,
1 January 1900
A column of Canadians and Australians demonstrated that the Boers could be surprised and defeated
by swiftly moving troops at Sunnyside in the northern Cape on 1 January 1900.
A number of Cape rebels were in occupation of the town of Douglas, on the Vaal River northwest of Belmont, in December 1899 and, halfway between the two settlements, a laager had been
established with about 200 Boers to protect their positions on the Vaal. On 31 December Colonel T.
D. Pilcher led out a force of 100 Canadia
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