Gen. De la Rey captures Lord Methuen

Date: 7 Mar 1902
Updated: 6 Mar 2020

Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Jacobus "Koos" De la Rey defeated and captured Gen. Lord Methuen in the Battle of Tweebosch (or De Klipdrift) in Western Transvaal in the last important battle won by the Boer forces. A wounded Methuen and more than 870 British soldiers were captured, while sixty-eight had been killed. De la Rey lost eight killed and twenty-six wounded. Eleven armed Blacks, fighting on the side of the British and responsible for misconduct at the farmhouse, were forced to dig a mass grave, blindfolded and summarily executed. Click here to go to the Classroom lesson 'Resisting British Control'.Click here to read about Black involvement in the Second Anglo-Boer War.

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01Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology, Pretoria: Lapa.
02Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.

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