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British Defeat at Laing's Nek

Great Britain · Warfare / Boer War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1881Date range
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1881

George Pomeroy Colley28 January 1881

Laing's Nek · Warfare / Boer War, 1st

British forces suffer a serious reverse while attempting to enter Transvaal.

Names involved

George Pomeroy Colley

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