Northern Cape / A LANDMARK STORY
Magersfontein.
A battlefield of the South African War, with a hill of trenches south of the diamond city.
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- When
- 11 December 1899
- Where
- South of Kimberley
The story behind it.
The Battle of Magersfontein ( MAH-khərss-fon-tayn) 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 (now in Sol Plaatje Local Municipality, Northern Cape). 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 entrenched in the surrounding
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