Battle of Elands River (1900)
The Battle of Elands River was an engagement of the Second Boer War that took place between 4 and 16 August 1900 in western Transvaal. The battle was fought at Brakfontein Drift near the Elands River between a force of 2,000 to 3,000 Boers and a garrison of 500 Australian, Rhodesian, Canadian and British soldiers, which was stationed there to protect a British supply dump that had been established along the route between Mafeking and Pretoria. The Boer force, which consisted of several commandos under the overall leadership of Koos de la Rey, was in desperate need of provisions after earlier fighting had cut it off from its support base. As a result, it was decided to attack the garrison along the Elands River in an effort to capture the supplies located there.
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Battle of Elands River (1900)
The Battle of Elands River was an engagement of the Second Boer War that took place between 4 and 16 August 1900 in western Transvaal. The battle was fought at Brakfontein Drift near the Elands River between a force of 2,000 to 3,000 Boers and a garrison of 500 Australian, Rhodesian, Canadian and British soldiers, which was stationed there to protect a British supply dump that had been established along the route between Mafeking and Pretoria. The Boer force, which consisted of several commandos under the overall leadership of Koos de la Rey, was in desperate need of provisions after earlier fighting had cut it off from its support base. As a result, it was decided to attack the garrison along the Elands River in an effort to capture the supplies located there.
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La bataille d'Elands River en ...... nsi échapper aux Britanniques.
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The Battle of Elands River was ...... w praise from Boer commanders.
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12 soldiers killed and 36 wounded
4 civilians killed and 15 wounded
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1900-08-16
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* Boer attack repulsed
* British garrison relieved
British victory
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2,000 – 3,000
201 Rhodesians
297 Australians
3 Canadians
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A dismounted soldier with rifl ...... horses stand in the foreground
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A soldier from the 3rd New South Wales Bushmen at Elands River a year after the battle
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Battle of Elands River
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the Second Boer War
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Brakfontein Drift, Transvaal
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This stand at Brakfontein on t ...... no finer fighting in the war.
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British victory
* Boer attack repulsed
* British garrison relieved
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—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in The Great Boer War
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La bataille d'Elands River en ...... sir du matériel qu'elle garde.
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The Battle of Elands River was ...... re the supplies located there.
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Battle of Elands River (1900)
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