Battle of Magersfontein

Ne zaman

11 Ara 1899

Tür

Muharebe

Koordinatlar

28.97° S, 24.70° E

Description

1899 battle of the Second Boer War

1899 battle of the Second Boer War

The Battle of Magersfontein was fought on 11 December 1899, at Magersfontein, near Kimberley, South Africa, on the borders of the Cape Colony and the independent republic of the Orange Free State. British forces under Lieutenant General Lord Methuen were advancing north along the railway line from the Cape to relieve the siege of Kimberley, but their path was blocked at Magersfontein by a Boer force that was entrench…

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · “Сражение у Магерсфонтейна в ходе Второй англо-бурской войны закончилось поражением британцев” adını veriyorCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Kaynak sayfası

• Second Boer War23 Eki 1899 · Savaş