Battle of Spion Kop
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The Battle of Spion Kop was a military engagement between British forces and two Boer Republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, during the campaign by the British to relieve the
Boers at Spion Kop, 1900.
Hillside of Spionkop with two Boer soldiers
Kommandant H. F. Prinsloo
Lt.Col. A. W. Thorneycroft
Second Boer War
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The Second Boer War was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the Boer republics over Britain's influence in Southern Africa.
Battle of Spion Kop
…African Republic and the Orange Free State, during the campaign by the British to relieve the besieged city Ladysmith during the initial months of the Second Boer War. The battle was fought 23–24 January 1900 on the hilltop of Spioen Kop(a), about 38 km (24 mi) west-southwest of Ladysmith and resulted in a Boer…
A typical British soldier. Corporal Alexander Turnbull of Kitchener's Fighting Scouts
Boer victory over the British at the Battle of Majuba Hill, First Boer War, 1881
A sketch showing the arrest of Leander Starr Jameson after the failed Jameson raid, in 1896
Paul Kruger, leader of the South African Republic (Transvaal)