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Battle of Rooiwal

Great Britain · Warfare / Boer War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1902Date range
3Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1902

Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton11 April 1902

Rooiwal · Warfare / Boer War, 2nd

Hamilton coordinates the wider British operations that bring Kemp's commandos against the prepared position at Rooiwal.

Robert George Kekewich11 April 1902

Rooiwal · Warfare / Boer War, 2nd

Kekewich's entrenched force defeats a mounted Boer attack at Rooiwal in one of the war's final major battles.

Henry Seymour Rawlinson11 April 1902

Rooiwal · Warfare / Boer War, 2nd

Rawlinson commands one of the British columns participating in the western Transvaal operations around Rooiwal.

Names involved

Henry Seymour RawlinsonIan Standish Monteith HamiltonRobert George Kekewich

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