The Battle of Ladysmith was fought between the Boer forces, commanded by Petrus J Joubert, and the British Army, under the command of Sir George Stuart White, on October 30, 1899, near Ladysmith, Colony of Natal, South Africa, during the Second Boer War. The result of this fiercely fought battle was a Boer victory. The [...]

The Battle of Magersfontein was a Second Boer War battle fought between the British Highland Brigade, led by Field Marshal Paul Sanford Methuen, and the Boer forces, under Koos De La Rey, on December 11, 1889, in Cape Colony, South Africa. The British brigade was composed of 15000 men, strengthened with an artillery unit equipped [...]

The Battle of Schuinshoogte was a military clash of the First Boer War, between an element of the British 60th King’s Royal Rifle regiment and a force of 300 Boer guerrillas, under Nicholas J Smit, on February 8, 1881, on the Ingogo River, Natal, South Africa. The result of the battle was another serious defeat [...]

The Battle of Laing’s Nek was a military engagement between elements of the British 58th Regiments and Boer rifle companies, under General Joubert. It took place on January 28, 1881, in the Drakensberg mountains, South Africa, during the First Boer War. The British tried to regain the Transvaal region that had been annexed to Britain [...]

The Battle of Bronkhorstspruit was the first military engagement of the First Boer War. It was fought between a Boer guerrilla unit, commanded by Frans Joubert, and an infantry detachment of the British Army, under Lieutenant-Colonel Anstruther, on December 20, 1880, on Bronkhorstspruit River, South Africa. In this battle, a group of 245 Boers sprang [...]

The Battle of Inkerman was a military encounter between the Franco-British forces, under General John L Pennefather, and the Russian Army, commanded by Prince Menshikov on November 5, 1854, on Mount Inkerman, in the Crimea, during the Crimean War. Although they were heavily outnumbered, the British and French units were able first to hold off [...]